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Bengali people Bengalis (singular Bengali bn, বাঙ্গালী/বাঙালি ), also rendered as Bangalee or the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of S ...

in the

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, mainly what is today

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

and

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, and people with Bengali ancestry or people who speak Bengali as their primary language.

Monarchs

Pala Dynasty

''Chronological order''

Chandra Dynasty

* Traillokyachandra (900–930) * Srichandra (930–975) *

Kalyanachandra Kalyanachandra (reigned c. 975 – 1000) was the third ruler of the Chandra dynasty in eastern Bengal. His campaign against the Kamboja dynasty of northern Bengal allowed the resurgent Pala Emperor Mahipala I to reclaim much of the Pala Empire. H ...

(975–1000) *

Ladahachandra Ladahachandra was the fourth ruler of the Chandra dynasty in eastern Bengal. Although he was a Buddhist and a renowned patron of Buddhism, he was also very sympathetic to Vaishnavite teachings (according to the two copperplates discovered at Mainam ...

(1000–1020) * Govindachandra (1020–1050)

Deva Dynasty

Dasharathadeva Raja Dasarathadeva Danujmadhava (Raja Danuaja Rai) was the last known Hindu king of East Bengal. He was the Deva king of Chandradvipa (present-day Barisal). History His ruling kingdom was near the neighborhood of Sonargaon between 1260 and 1268 CE ...

(1281) *

Pratapaditya Pratapaditya was a Mughal vassal of Jessore and a powerful Zamindar of lower Bengal, before being crushed by the Mughal Empire. He was eulogized, in an ahistorical manner, by 20th century Bengali nationalists as a Hindu liberator from foreign (Isl ...

, Maharaja of

Jessore Jessore ( bn, যশোর, jôshor, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District situated in Khulna Division. It is situated in the south-western part of Bangladesh. It is the administrative centre (headquarter) of the eponymous district ...

(1561–1611) *

Kirtinarayan Basu Kirtinarayan Basu ( bn, কীর্তিনারায়ণ বসু; r. 1668), also spelt Kirti Narayan Basu, was the fifth ''raja'' of medieval Chandradwip, a ''zamindari'' which covered much of the Barisal Division of present-day Bangladesh ...

, Raja of Chandradwip (from 1668), converted to Islam

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)

House of Ganesha

* Raja Ganesha *

Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah ( bn, জালালউদ্দীন মুহম্মদ শাহ; born as Yadu or Jadu) was a 15th-century Sultan of Bengal and an important figure in medieval Bengali history. Born a Hindu to his aristocratic fat ...

Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah Shamsuddīn Aḥmad Shāh ( bn, শামসউদ্দীন আহমদ শাহ, fa, ; r. 1433–1436) was the last Sultan of Bengal belonging to the House of Ganesha. He was the son and successor of Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah. Afte ...

(1419–1436)

Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)

Other

Paragal Khan Paragal Khan ( bn, পরাগল খান) was an administrator and military commander (lashkar) of the Bengal Sultanate in the late 15th century and early 16th century. He served as the General of Alauddin Husain Shah. Early life Khan was born ...

, 16th-century governor of Chittagong *

Chhuti Khan Nusrat Khan, ( fa, , bn, নুসরত খাঁন) better known as Chhuti Khan ( bn, ছুটি খাঁ), was a military commander of the Bengal Sultanate and Governor of Chittagong in the early 16th century. Early life Khan was born int ...

, 16th-century governor of Chittagong *

Shahzada Danyal Dānyāl, Prince of Bengal ( fa, , d. 1500s), also known as Dulāl Ghāzī ( Bengali–Assamese: দুলাল গাজী), was the eldest son of the Sultan of Bengal Alauddin Hussain Shah. He performed official duties and engagements on behal ...

, son of Alauddin Husain Shah * Syeda Momena Khatun, daughter of

Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah ( bn, গিয়াসউদ্দীন মাহমুদ শাহ, fa, غیاث الدین محمود شاه) was the last Sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of the Bengal Sultanate, reigning from 1533 to 1538 CE. ...

* Isa Khan (1529–1599), leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal * Musa Khan (d. 1623), leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal *

Dilal Khan Dilwar Khan ( bn, দেলোয়ার খাঁ, Delwar Khan), popularly known as Raja Dilal ( bn, দিলাল রাজা, Dilal Raja), was the last independent ruler of Sandwip, an island in present-day Bangladesh. His reputation as a ...

(1585-1666), final independent ruler of Sandwip *

(r. 1668-?), fifth Raja of

Chandradwip Chandradwip or Chandradvipa is a small region in Barisal District, Bangladesh. It was once the ancient and medieval name of Barishal. History The history of Chandradwip goes back to the Pre-Pala Period. Chandradwip was successively ruled by the ...

and founder of the Muslim Baklai family *

Chowdhury Abu Torab Khan Chowdhury Abu Torab Khan ( bn, চৌধুরী আবু তোরাব খাঁ), better known simply as Abu Torab ( bn, আবু তোরাব), was an 18th-century Bengali zamindar from Sandwip, an island in present-day Bangladesh. ...

(d. 1767), zamindar of Sandwip and leader of Bengal's first anti-colonial uprising * Titumir (1782–1831), anti-colonial rebel and self-proclaimed ''Badshah'' * Rahimullah (d. 1861), Chief of Baraikhali and leader of the Sundarbans Indigo Revolt * Khoodi Mullah (fl. 1873), independence activist and claimed "Chief Minister" *

Golam Ali Chowdhury Mia Golam Ali Chowdhury Sahib ( bn, মিঞা গোলাম আলী চৌধুরী সাহেব; 1824 – 7 January 1888), also known as Chowdhuri Golam Ali ( bn, চৌধুরী গোলাম আলী), was a 19th-century Ben ...

(1824–1888), zamindar of Haturia and philanthropist

Nobel laureates

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

, Nobel Prize in Literature, First Nobel Prize winner of

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, 1913 *

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998 * Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, 2006 * Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economic science, 2019 File:Rabindranath Tagore unknown location.jpg,

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Academics

* Momtazuddin Ahmed, philosopher and educationist *

Dewan Mohammad Azraf Dewan Mohammad Azraf ( bn, দেওয়ান মোহাম্মদ আজরফ; 1908–1999) was a Bengali philosopher, teacher, author, politician, journalist and activist. In 1993, he was honoured as a National Professor in Bangladesh. H ...

, National Professor of Bangladesh *

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (born 1968) is an Indian computer scientist specializing in computational biology. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 201 ...

, first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute, India. *

Chandramukhi Basu Chandramukhi Bose ( bn, চন্দ্রমুখী বসু; 1860 – 3 February 1944, a Bengali from Dehradun, which was located in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh) was one of the first two female graduates of the British India. In ...

, computer scientist and first female graduate in

, and the

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Nurunnahar Fatema Begum Brigadier General Professor Nurunnahar Fatema Begum (born 19 September 1962) is the first ever Paediatric Cardiologist of Bangladesh and a Brigadier General under the Bangladesh Army. In 2019, she was awarded both the Independence Day Award (hig ...

, head of paediatric cardiology at the Combined Medical Hospital (Dhaka) *

Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya ( bn, অনুদ্বৈপায়ন ভট্টাচার্য; 31 January 1941 – 25 March 1971) was a lecturer of the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Dhaka who was killed by the Pakistan A ...

, university lecturer martyred in the

Bangladesh Liberation War The Bangladesh Liberation War ( bn, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh) was a revolution and War, armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Benga ...

Jatindramohan Bhattacharya Jatindramohan Bhattacharya (; 1908–1999) was an author and researcher of Bengali and Assamese literature. He served as the professor of Bengali at the University of Calcutta for many years. Early life and family Bhattacharya was born in 190 ...

, academic and literary researcher * Padmanath Bhattacharya, academic and literary researcher * Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya * Sugata Bose, historian * Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian *

Sudhir Chakraborty Sudhir Chakravarti (19 September 1934 – 15 December 2020) was a Bengali educationist and essayist. He made a vast contribution in Bengal's folk culture development and research. Chakravarti had completely changed the style of colonial prose wi ...

, Researcher of Bengal's folk culture. *

Swapan Kumar Chakravorty Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (Bengali: স্বপন কুমার চক্রবর্তী; 29 July 1954 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian academic who was a distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Presidency University, Kolkata. H ...

, literary scholar and writer *

Partha Chatterjee Partha ( sa, pārtha) may refer to: * Partha, an epithet of Arjuna, a warrior in the Mahabharata * Partha, an ancestor of the Shah Mir dynasty of Kashmir * Partha, a given name (for a list of people with the name, see ) * Partha See also * Parth ...

, political scientist *

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee Bhashacharya Acharya Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (26 November 1890 – 29 May 1977) was an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur. He was a recipient of the second-highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Vibhushan. Life Childhood Chatterji ...

, linguist, educationist, litterateur *

Sukanta Chaudhuri Sukanta Chaudhuri (born 1950) is an Indian literary scholar, now Professor Emeritus at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata and the University of Oxford. He taught at Presidency College from January 1973 ...

, literary scholar, writer, translator *

Supriya Chaudhuri Supriya Chaudhuri ( bn, সুপ্রিয়া চৌধুরী; born 1953) is an Indian scholar of English literature. She is Professor Emerita at Kolkata's Jadavpur University. Biography She was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Eu ...

, literary scholar, writer, translator *

Jamilur Reza Choudhury Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury (15 November 1942 – 28 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi civil engineer, professor, researcher, and education advocate. He was an Adviser (Minister) to Caretaker government of Bangladesh, Caretaker Government of Banglad ...

, vice-chancellor of

University of Asia Pacific University of Asia Pacific ( bn, ইউনিভার্সিটি অব এশিয়া প্যাসিফিক) often abbreviated as UAP is a private university located at Dhaka, Bangladesh. History The University of Asia Pacific was ...

, adviser to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh * Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, physicist and vice-chancellor of

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) is a Public university, public research university, research based university in Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is the List of universities in Bangladesh#Public universities, 8th oldest university o ...

and Sylhet International University *

Khudiram Das Khudiram Das (9 October 1916 – 28 April 2002) was an Indian scholar, educationist, critic, litterateur, an authority on Rabindra literature and linguistic expert. Early life and family Khudiram Das was born in Beliatore situated in Bankura ...

, literary scholar, educationist, linguist * Satish Ranjan Das, founder of The Doon School,

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative As ...

Shomie Das Shomie Ranjan Das (born 28 August 1935) is an Indian educationist. An alumnus of The Doon School, he has served as the headmaster of the three most top schools of India, namely The Doon School, Mayo College and Lawrence School, Sanawar. He had ...

, Indian educationist, former headmaster of The Doon School *

Tarak Chandra Das Tarak Chandra Das (1898–1964) was an anthropologist of Calcutta University. He did his Masters' from Calcutta University in ‘Ancient Indian History and Culture’ and joined the then newly founded Department of Anthropology at Calcutta Univer ...

, anthropologist, author, former teacher in anthropology, the University of Calcutta *

Bhupendranath Datta Bhupendranath Datta (4 September 1880 – 25 December 1961) was an Indian revolutionary and later a noted sociologist and anthropologist. He associated Rishi Aurobindo in his political works. In his youth, he was closely associated with the ...

, revolutionary, author, anthropologist *

Soumitra Dutta Soumitra Dutta is an Indian academic, author and entrepreneur. He is the dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, having taken up the post from 1 June 2022. He was previously a professor of management, as well as the former Fo ...

, Dean Elect of Saïd Business School at

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and former Founding Dean of Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at

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Anil Kumar Gain Anil Kumar Gain Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, FRSS Cambridge Philosophical Society, FCPS (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian people, Indian mathematician and statistician best known for ...

, mathematician from

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Kaberi Gain Kaberi Gayen is a Bangladeshi academic, author, and social activist known for her outspoken views on the oppression of minorities and gender inequality in Bangladesh. She is a professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at ...

, prominent academic, author, and social activist * Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, professor at

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Saroj Ghose Saroj Ghose (born 1 September 1935) is an Indian science popularizer and museum maker. He was the director of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum and director general of the National Council of Science Museums, Government of India. He wa ...

, science populariser and museum maker, won an award for ''Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children'' * Subir Kumar Ghosh, planetary scientist and a winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology *

Joseph Ghosh Joseph Jogindra Ghose (born 1869 - died 1942) of Allahabad, India. Son of Jadunath Ghose of Calcutta who was one of the earliest high-caste Hindu converts to Christianity in Bengal. Graduated from St. John's College, Agra in 1890 and passed his pos ...

, first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters,

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* Aminul Hoque

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, lecturer at

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, writer *

K M Baharul Islam K M Baharul Islam is presently the Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He served as the Dean (Academics) during 2019-2021 at the same institute. He was elected as a Fel ...

, Dean of the

Indian Institute of Management Kashipur Indian Institute of Management Kashipur also known as IIM Kashipur, is a public business school located in Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India. It is one of the thirteen Indian Institutes of Management the government has set up during the Eleventh Fi ...

Syed Manzoorul Islam Syed Manzoorul Islam (born 18 January 1951) is a Bangladeshi critic, writer and a former professor of University of Dhaka, Dhaka University. As a literary critic, he has written criticism on writers including Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Kazi Nazrul I ...

, critic, writer, former professor of

Dhaka University The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...

Mohammad Ataul Karim Mohammad Ataul Karim (born 4 May 1953) is a Bangladeshi American scientist and higher education administrator, with expertise in electro-optical systems, optical computing, and pattern recognition. Karim is ranked amongst the top 50 researcher ...

, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the

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Ataur Rahman Khan Khadim Atta ur Rehman Khan was an academic in the Bangladesh Liberation war and is considered a martyr in Bangladesh. Early life Khadim was born in Kharampur, Akhaura, Brahmanbaria District on 1933. He graduated from George H. E. School in 1948 and Dhak ...

, physician martyred during the

Salman Khan Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (; 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films. In a film career spanning over thirty years, Khan has received numerous awards, including two Nation ...

, American educator, founder of

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Nazia Khanum Nazia Khanum, OBE, DL ( bn, নাজিয়া খানম; born 1943) is a Bangladeshi-born British management consultant, researcher, Director of Equality in Diversity, non-executive director for NHS Luton and chair of various voluntary ...

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(OBE) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL) *

Shahla Khatun Professor Shahla Khatun FCPS FRCOG ( bn, শাহলা খাতুন) is a Bangladeshi physician and National Professor. Early life and family Khatun was born into a Bengali Muslim political family in Sylhet. Her father, Abu Ahmad Abdul H ...

, obstetrician and gynecologist * Brigadier

Abdul Malik Abdul Malik ( ar, عبد الملك) is an Arabic (Muslim or Christian) male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''al-'' and ''Malik''. The name means "servant of the King", in the Christian instan ...

, founder of National Heart Foundation * Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, statistician, founder of

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Vina Mazumdar Dr. Vina Mazumdar (28 March 1927 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist. A pioneer in women's studies in India, she was a leading figure of the Indian women's movement. She was amongst the first women academics t ...

, academic, activist and feminist * Ujjwal Maulik, computer scientist and former Head, Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University *

Rajendralal Mitra Raja Rajendralal Mitra (16 February 1822 – 26 July 1891) was among the first Indian cultural researchers and historians writing in English. A polymath and the first Indian president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, he was a pioneering figur ...

, first modern

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of Indian origin * Nurul Momen, professor of law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean *

Satish Chandra Mukherjee Satish Chandra Mukherjee (5 June 1865 – 18 April 1948) was a pioneer in establishing a system of national education in India, along with Sri Aurobindo. The positivist background Satish Chandra was born at Banipur in Hooghly district of prese ...

, educationist *

Abdul Muktadir Mohammad Abdul Muktadir was a Bengali geologist and academic who was killed in the 1971 Dhaka University massacre. He is considered a martyr in Bangladesh. Early life Abdul Muktadir was the third child born into a Bengali Muslim family in Pashch ...

, academician martyred in the

Nurul Islam Nahid Nurul Islam Nahid ( bn, নুরুল ইসলাম নাহিদ; born 5 July 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician and author. He served a member of the Bangladeshi parliament from the Sylhet-6 constituency from 15 years, being elected in ...

, former Education Minister of Bangladesh *

Ashis Nandy Ashis Nandy ( bn, আশিস নন্দী; born 13 May 1937) is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, and critic. A trained clinical psychologist, Nandy has provided theoretical critiques of European colonialism, development ...

, political psychologist * M. A. Rashid, first Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology *

Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of fil ...

, first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema * Abul Kashem Sandwip, educationist and a founder of Bangladesh Betar *

Sir Jadunath Sarkar Sir Jadunath Sarkar (10 December 1870 – 19 May 1958) was a prominent Indian historian and a specialist on the Mughal dynasty. Academic career Sarkar was born in Karachmaria village in Natore, Bengal to Rajkumar Sarkar, the local Zamindar ...

, historian * Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, tenth vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University *

Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad Abdul Karim (1871 – 1953), known as Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad, was a Bengali littérateur, historian of Bangla literature and collector and interpreter of old Bangla manuscripts. Early life Karim was born in Suchakradandi village, Bengal Pr ...

,Bengali littérateur, historian of Bangla literatur *

Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen (born 7 November 1937 in Calcutta, India)Curriculum vitae
, retriev ...

, statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the

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Sumit Sarkar Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) is an Indian historian of modern India. He is the author of ''Swadeshi Movement''. Early life, education and career He was born to Susobhan Sarkar. His maternal uncle was Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. He completed h ...

, historian *

Sukumar Sen Sukumar Sen may refer to: *Sukumar Sen (civil servant) Sukumar Sen (2 January 1898 – 13 May 1963) was an Indian civil servant who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India, serving from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958. Under his le ...

, linguist *

Muhammad Shahidullah Muhammad Shahidullah ( bn, মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ; 10 July 1885 – 13 July 1969) was a Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer. In 2004, he was ranked number 16 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengal ...

, educationist, writer, philologist, and linguist, theorist *

Abu Nasr Waheed Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Waḥīd ( ar, أبو نصر محمد وحيد, bn, আবু নসর মুহম্মদ ওহীদ; 21 September 1878 – 31 May 1953), or simply Abu Nasr Waheed, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educationist, au ...

, Islamic scholar, author, politician and educationist *

Nafees Bin Zafar Nafees Bin Zafar (born 1978) is a visual effects and computer graphics software engineer of Bangladeshi origin based in Los Angeles, United States. He is currently Principal Engineer at animation studio DreamWorks Animation. In 2008, he received a ...

, Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar File:Mohammod Sohidullah.jpg,

, Linguist File: Sunitikumar Chatterjee.jpg,

, Linguist File : Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1871-1953).svg,

, Interpreter of old Bangla manuscripts File:Sudhir Chakravarti.jpg,

, Folk Researcher.

Actors and entertainers

Islah Abdur-Rahman Islah Abdur-Rahman ( bn, ইসলাহ আব্দুর-রহমান; born 20 April 1991) is a British Bangladeshi film director, actor, singer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing, directing and starring in the hit series, t ...

, film director, actor and screenwriter * Siam Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor, model * Ruhul Amin, film director * Alamgir, film actor and television host * Niloy Alamgir, model and actor *

Afshan Azad Afshan Noor Azad-Kazi (née Azad; born 12 February, 1988) is a British actress, model, and media personality. She is best known for playing the role of Padma Patil in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, beginning in 2005 with ''Harry Potter an ...

, actress best known for the role of

Padma Patil Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwa ...

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...

Azim Azim (''ʿAẓīm'' ) is one of the names of Allah in Islam, meaning "''Great''" or "''Magnificent''" or "''Protector''" Also used as a personal name, as short form of the Abdolazim, Abdul Azim, "''Servant of the Magnificent''". It is used by man ...

, actor best known for the role of Rahim Badshah in ''Rupban'' * Amala Akkineni (née.Mukherjee), Bollywood actress * Jaya Bachchan, Bollywood actress * Bidita Bag, Bollywood and Bengali actress *

Ajitesh Bandopadhyay Ajitesh Bandopadhyay ( bn, অজিতেশ বন্দোপাধ্যায়; born: 30 September 1933 ― 13 October 1983) was an actor, playwright, activist and director. He along with Shambhu Mitra and Utpal Dutt are considered to be ...

, stage and film actor *

Bhanu Bandopadhyay Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, also known as Bhanu Banerjee (born as Samyamoy Bandyopadhyay; 26 August 1920 – 4 March 1983), was an Indian actor, known for his work in Bengali cinema. He acted in over 300 movies, in numerous plays and performed freque ...

, Tollywood comic actor *

Jenni Banerjee Jenni Pauliina Banerjee (born 17 January 1981 in Ylöjärvi, Finland) is a Finnish actress with Indian ancestry. She has appeared in movies such as '' Pahat pojat'' (2003), ''Joensuun Elli'' (2004) and ''Lieksa!'' (2007). Her maternal grandfather ...

, Indian origin Finnish actor *

Karuna Banerjee Karuna Banerjee ( bn, করুণা ব্যানার্জী) (25 December 1919 – 13 November 2001) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbaja ...

, first Indian actress earned BAFTA Award for Best Actress nomination at the 1959 BAFTA Awards *

Victor Banerjee Victor Banerjee is an Indian actor who appears in English, Hindi, Bengali and Assamese language films. He has worked for directors such as Roman Polanski, James Ivory, Sir David Lean, Jerry London, Ronald Neame, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Shya ...

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win

National Board of Review Award for Best Actor The National Board of Review Award for Best Actor is one of the annual film awards given (since 1945) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Winners 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple aw ...

* Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress *

Jaya Bhattacharya Jaya Bhattacharya is an Indian television actress. She is known for playing antagonistic roles in TV serials. She has also done small roles in movies. Best known for playing Payal in soap opera ''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'', she also play ...

, actress *

Nivedita Bhattacharya Nivedita Bhattacharya (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian actress. She was born in Lucknow. She is an actress who has acted on television and in films. Filmography * ''Kya Kehna'' (2000) - Preity Zinta's sister-in-law * '' Darr @ the Mall'' (2 ...

, theatre actress * Nusrat Jahan, Bengali actress * Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor *

Chhabi Biswas Chhabi Biswas (''Chabi Biśbās'') (13 July 1900 – 11 June 1962) was an Indian actor, primarily known for his performances in Tapan Sinha's '' Kabuliwala'' and Satyajit Ray's films '' Jalshaghar'' (''The Music Room'', 1958), '' Devi'' ( ...

, Bengali actor *

Seema Biswas Seema Biswas (born 14 January 1965) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and the theatre. She gained prominence after playing the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film '' Bandit Queen'' (1994), for which she won the National Fil ...

, Bollywood actress * Rahul Bose, Bengali and Bollywood actor and

rugby Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby league: 13 players per side *** Masters Rugby League *** Mod league *** Rugby league nines *** Rugby league sevens *** Touch (sport) *** Wheelchair rugby league ** Rugby union: 1 ...

player * Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bollywood and Bengali actor *

Samrat Chakrabarti Samrat Chakrabarti (born 22 August 1975) is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent. Early life Born in London to Indian Hindu Bengali immigrant parents from Kolkata. He performed in Indian community functions in Boston, ...

, British-American actor and musician * Indrani Chakraborty, Bollywood actress *

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...

, Bollywood and Bengali film actor *

Rhea Chakraborty Rhea Chakraborty (born 1 July 1992 is an Indian actress and VJ who primarily appears in Hindi films. She started her career as a VJ on MTV India. She made her acting debut with the 2012 Telugu film ''Tuneega Tuneega'' and later appeared in the ...

, Bollywood actress * Ritwick Chakraborty, Bengali actor *

Tulsi Chakraborty Tulsi Chakraborty (also Tulsi Chakrabarti, bn, তুলসী চক্রবর্তী; 3 March 1899 – 11 December 1961) was an Indian actor and comedian who worked in Bengali cinema in the 1940s and 50s. His most notable role could be t ...

, Bengali actor *

Abhishek Chatterjee Abhishek Chatterjee (30 April 1964 – 24 March 2022) was an Indian actor who was known for his work in Bengali cinema. He made his big screen debut alongside veterans such as Sandhya Roy, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tapas Paul, and Utpal Dutt with ...

, Bengali film and television actor * Anil Chatterjee, Bengali actor * Biswajit Chatterjee, Bengali and Bollywood actor * Dhritiman Chatterjee, Bollywood and Bengali actor * Moushumi Chatterjee, Bengali actress *

Prasenjit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee (born 30 September 1962) is an Indian actor and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading actors in modern Bengali cinema. He predominantly works in Bengali cinema . He is the son of veteran Bollywood actor Bisw ...

, Tollywood and Bollywood actor * Priyanshu Chatterjee, Bollywood actor * Sabitri Chatterjee, Bengali actor * Saswata Chatterjee, Bengali actor *

Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelt as Chattopadhyay; 16 June 193515 November 2020) was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of ...

, Bengali actor * Subhendu Chatterjee, Bengali actor * Tannishtha Chatterjee, Bollywood and Bengali actress *

Jayanta Chattopadhyay Jayanto Chattopadhyay (born 28 July 1946) is a Bangladeshi actor and reciter. He studied in English literature from Calcutta University. He portrayed the famous character Misir Ali in a television drama named ''Trishna''. Works Films * '' Ada ...

, Bangladeshi actor *

Khaled Choudhury Khaled Choudhury (20 December 1919 – 30 April 2014) was a theatre personality and artist of Bengal. He worked for various directors of both Bengali and Hindi plays, including Sombhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, and Shyamanand Jalan in various c ...

, theatre personality and artist *

Sarita Choudhury Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991). Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and tel ...

, Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress *

Chanchal Chowdhury Suchinta Chowdhury Chanchal ( bn, সুচিন্ত চৌধুরী চঞ্চল), known as Chanchal Chowdhury ( bn, চঞ্চল চৌধুরী), is a Bangladeshi actor. Critically acclaimed for his performances in ''Rupkothar ...

, Bangladeshi actor *

Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury (c. 1930 – 8 May 2005) was a Bangladeshi cinematographer-turned-director. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Cinematography four times for the films ''Golapi Ekhon Traine'' (1978), ''Dui Poisar Alta'' (1982), ...

, cinematographer and director * Shefali Chowdhury, actress best known for the role of

Parvati Patil Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwa ...

Paoli Dam Paoli Dam (born 1980) is an Indian actress who started her career with the Bengali television serial ''Jibon Niye Khela'' (2003). She then worked in Bengali television serials such as ''Tithir Atithi'' and ''Sonar Harin''; the former ran for ...

, actress * Shraddha Das, Bollywood and Tollywood actress *

Dev Dev, sometimes capitalized as DEV, can be referred as: People Single names * Dev (born 1982), Indian actor * Dev (born 1984), British radio presenter, DJ and actor * Dev (born 1989), American singer * Dev, Indian actor First names * Dev Anand (19 ...

, Tollywood actor *

Sumita Devi Nilufar Begum (2 February 1936 – 6 January 2004; born Hena Bhattacharya), better known by her stage name Sumita Devi, was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She wa ...

Bangladeshi film The Bangladeshi Cinema, better known as Dhallywood ( bn, ঢালিউড), is the Bengali-language film industry based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has often been a significant film industry since the early 1970s. The dominant style of Bangl ...

and television actress * Supriya Devi, Tollywood actress *

K. C. Dey Krishna Chandra Dey (24 August 1893 – 28 November 1962), better known as K.C. Dey, was an Indian music director, music composer, musician, singer, actor, and music teacher born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He was S.D. Burman's first musical te ...

, Bengali actor * Utpal Dutt, Bengali actor *

Santosh Dutta Santosh Dutta (Bengali: সন্তোষ দত্ত; 2 December 1925 – 5 March 1988) was a Bengali actor, best known for playing the character of Jatayu in Satyajit Ray's Feluda movie series ''Sonar Kella'' and '' Joi Baba Felunath''. Ear ...

Tollywood actor, famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray * Tanushree Dutta, former Miss India and actress *

Ishita Dutta Ishita Dutta Sheth (born 26 August 1990) is an Indian actress and model. She is most notable for her performance in the 2015 Hindi film ''Drishyam'' and its 2022 sequel, ''Drishyam 2''. She has also played the lead role in the TV shows ''Ek Ghar ...

, actress *

Prasun Gain Prasun Gain (born 3 September 1977) is an Indian actor and dramatist who works in Bengali cinema and television. He is best known for his roles in ''Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!'' (2015), '' Alifa'' (2016), and ''Prem Amar'' (2009). He also played ...

, Tollywood actor * Richa Gangopadhyay, actress and Miss India USA 2007 *

Mouli Ganguly Mouli Ganguly is an Indian Actress, who has worked in both Hindi and Bengali cinema. She shot to fame as Shaina in Ekta Kapoor's popular hit thriller series ''Kaahin Kissii Roz'' that aired from 2001–04 on Star Plus. She played the titu ...

, actress * Preeti Ganguly, actress *

Roopa Ganguly Roopa Ganguly is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician. She is best known for her portrayal of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series ''Mahabharat''. Often promoted as the Tollywood's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi, she ...

, Bengali and Bollywood actress * Rupali Ganguly, actress *

Rabi Ghosh Robi Ghosh ( bn, রবি ঘোষ) (24 November 1931 – 4 February 1997) was an Indian actor known for his work in Bengali cinema. He is known for his comic appeal, though his versatile acting talent brought him success in various kin ...

, Bengali actor * Reshmi Ghosh, actress, Miss India Earth 2002 *

Sangita Ghosh Sangita Ghosh (born 18 August 1976) is an Indian film and television actress and model. She is better known for her role of Pammi in the television serial ''Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand''. She has also anchored and hosted several award shows and ...

, actress, model * Shahana Goswami, Bollywood actress * Abul Hayat, Bangladeshi actor *

Rizwan Hussain Rizwan Hussain ( bn, রেজওয়ান হুসেইন ''Rezwan Husein''; born 7 December 1973) is a Bangladeshi-born British television presenter, barrister and an international humanitarian worker. He is also a former Hindi musi ...

, TV personality, barrister and former CEO of Global Aid Trust * Konnie Huq, British television presenter * Nadiya Hussain, columnist, chef, author and TV personality best known for winning the baking competition The Great British Bake Off *

Khalil Ullah Khan Khalil Ullah Khan (known as Khalil; 2 February 1934 – 7 December 2014) was a Bangladeshi film and television actor. He earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ''Gunda'' in 1976. Early life and career K ...

, film and TV actor *

Shakib Khan Masud Rana ( bn, মাসুদ রানা), better known by the name Shakib Khan ( bn, শাকিব খান) born 28 March 1979) is a Bangladeshi actor, producer, occasional singer, film organiser, and media personality who works in B ...

, Bangladeshi actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personality * Anup Kumar, Tollywood actor * Ashok Kumar, Bollywood actor *

Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar (born as Abhas Kumar Ganguly (); 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music. He ...

, Bollywood singer, actor, music composer * Pradeep Kumar, Bollywood actor * Uttam Kumar, Bollywood and Bengali film actor * Shaun Majumder, Canadian comedian and actor; winner of

Gemini Awards The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States a ...

Koena Mitra Koena Mitra (born 7 January 1984) is an Indian actress and model who appears in Bollywood films. She is mostly known for her item numbers and for her appearance as Julie in the movie ''Apna Sapna Money Money''. Early life Mitra was born in Ko ...

, former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress * Rhona Mitra, half-Bengali actress in Britain *

Rani Mukerji Rani Mukerji (pronounced ; born 21 March 1978) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. Noted for her versatility, she is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Rani Mukerji, multiple accolades, including seven Filmf ...

, Bollywood and Kollywood actress * Joy Mukherjee, Bollywood actor *

Kajol Mukherjee Kajol Devgan ( née Mukherjee; born 5 August 1974), known mononymously as Kajol, is an Indian actress. Described in the media as one of the most successful actresses of Hindi cinema, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six ...

Bollywood actress *

Kamalini Mukherjee Kamalinee Mukherjee is an Indian actress. She has predominantly appeared in Telugu films as well as Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali and Kannada language films. After graduating with a degree in English literature, she completed a workshop on t ...

, Bollywood and Tollywood actress * Madhabi Mukherjee, actress notable works include charulata, mahanagar *

Sagarika Mukherjee Sagarika Mukherjee (born 4 September 1970), also known as Saag, is an Indian singer and actress. She sings mainly in Hindi, Assamese and Bengali language songs but has also sung in Tamil and Telugu languages. She is the daughter of singer an ...

, Bollywood and Tollywood actress and playback singer *

Shantanu Mukherjee Shantanu Mukherjee (born 30 September 1972), popularly known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer, composer, live perfomer ,actor and television personality. He has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and has est ...

, Bollywood actor, playback singer and television presenter *

Swastika Mukherjee Swastika Mukherjee (born 13 December 1980) is an Indian actress and the daughter of the late Santu Mukhopadhyay. Mukherjee made her screen debut with ''Devdasi'', a Bengali TV series. She made her big screen debut with '' Hemanter Pakhi'' (20 ...

, Tollywood actress * Colin Pal, actor and publicist * Patralekha, Bollywood actress * Raakhee, Bollywood actress * Ashiqur Rahman *

Khan Ataur Rahman Khan Ataur Rahman (known as Khan Ata; 11 December 1928 – 1 December 1997) was a Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer, best known for his role in the film ''Jibon Theke Neya'' (1970). He rec ...

, Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer * Devika Rani, Bollywood and Bengali actress * Lisa Ray, actress and model * Razzak, Bangladeshi actor * Rola, Bengali-Japanese model,

tarento Television personalities in Japan, known as in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, bankable stars in America were described as "tal ...

and actress * Ziaul Roshan, film actor and model * Bikash Roy Tollywood actor * Debashree Roy, Bollywood actress * Mouni Roy, Bollywood actress * Rahul Roy, Bollywood actor *

Reena Roy Reena Roy (born Saira Ali; 7 January 1957), is an Indian actress. At the age of 15, she made her film debut with the drama ''Zaroorat'' (1972), but gained wider public recognition with her roles in the romantic comedy ''Jaise Ko Taisa'' (1973) a ...

, Bollywood actress * Rohit Roy, TV and Bollywood actor * Ronit Roy, Bollywood and TV actor *

Pahari Sanyal Pahari Sanyal (22 February 1906 – 10 February 1974) was an Indian actor and singer who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. Sanyal acted in many Bengali films, such as ''Harano Sur'', ''Bhanu Goenda Jahar Assistant'', and ''Shilpi''. B ...

Tollywood actor * Aparna Sen, Bengali film actress *

Nandana Sen Nandana Dev Sen (19 August 1967) is an Indian-born American actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist. Her first film role in Bollywood was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ''Black'' (2005), starring Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh ...

, Bollywood actress, daughter of Nobel laureate

Raima Sen Raima Sen (born Raima Dev Varma on 7 November 1979) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in the Hindi and Bengali films. Early life Raima Sen was born on 7 November 1979 in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Moon Moon Sen and Bharat Dev Varma a ...

, Bengali film and Bollywood actress *

Reema Sen Reema Sen (born 29 October 1981) is an Indian actress and model who primarily appeared in Bengali theatre films, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films. Early life and education Sen was born in Kolkata on 29 October 1981. She completed high school fro ...

, Bollywood and Kollywood actress *

Riddhi Sen Riddhi Sen is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Bengali films. He is a regular actor of the theatre group Swapnasandhani and is an alumnus of South Point school, Kolkata. In 2010, he received a special talent award from his schoo ...

, youngest recipient of the National Film Award for Best Actor *

Rimi Sen Rimi Sen (born Subhamitra Sen on 21 September 1981) is an Indian actress and producer who appears in Hindi, Telugu, and Bengali films. Sen debuted as child actress in the 1996 Bengali film ''Damu''. She made her debut as a lead actress in 20 ...

, Bollywood actress *

Riya Sen Riya Sen (born Riya Dev Varma; 24 January 1981) is an Indian actress and model. who predominantly appears in Hindi, Bengali, English, Telugu and Tamil films. Sen comes from a royal background; her father Bharat Dev Varma hails from the royal ...

, Bollywood actress *

Suchitra Sen Suchitra Sen ( ; born as Roma Dasgupta (; 6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014) was an Indian actress who worked in Bengali and Hindi cinema. The movies in which she was paired opposite Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Bengali cinema ...

, Bollywood and Bengali film actress * Sushmita Sen, Bollywood actress * Rituparna Sengupta, Bollywood and Bengali actress *

Ushoshi Sengupta Ushoshi Sengupta (born 30 July 1988) is an Indian model who won the title of I Am She – Miss Universe India and represented India in Miss Universe 2010 held at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, on 23 August 2010. Early life Born in Kolkata, S ...

, model, I Am She–Miss Universe India in 2010 * Shabnur, Bangladeshi actress * Salman Shah, Bangladeshi actor * Ali Shahalom, comedian and television presenter *

ATM Shamsuzzaman Abu Taher Mohammad Shamsuzzaman ( bn, আবু তাহের মোহাম্মদ শামসুজ্জ়ামান; 10 September 1941 – 20 February 2021), better known as known as ATM Shamsuzzaman, was a Bangladeshi film and telev ...

, Bangladeshi former actor * Mamata Shankar, Bollywood and Bengali actress * Konkona Sen Sharma, Bollywood actress * Arifin Shuvoo, Bangladeshi actor *

Tiya Sircar Tiya Sircar (born May 16, 1982) is an American actress best known for her role as "Real Eleanor"/Vicky in ''The Good Place'' (2016–2020). She also provided the voice for Sabine Wren in Disney XD's ''Star Wars Rebels'' (2014–2018), played Roon ...

, American actress * Khushbu Sundar, Kollywood actress, producer and television presenter * Sharmila Tagore, Bollywood and Bengali film actress * Ruma Guha Thakurta, actress whose notable works include

Ganashatru ''Ganashatru'' ( bn, গণশত্রু ''Gônoshotru'' 'Enemy of the People') is a 1990 Indian film directed by Satyajit Ray. It is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play '' An Enemy of the People'', and was released under that title in t ...

Abhijan Abhijan may refer to: * Abhijan (1962 film), a Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray * Abhijan (1984 film), a Bangladeshi film directed by Abdur Razzak * Abhijaan (2022 film) ''Abhijaan'' () is a 2022 Indian Bengali biographical film directed ...

, Palatak; wife of

Artists and designers

Bharat Ratna

Aruna Asaf Ali Aruna Asaf Ali (''née'' Ganguly; 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National fl ...

Pranab Mukherjee Dr. Pranab Mukherjee (11 December 193531 August 2020) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13th president of India from 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the India ...

Bidhan Chandra Roy Bidhan Chandra Roy (1 July 1882 – 1 July 1962) was an Indian physician, educationist, and statesman who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1948 until his death in 1962. Roy played a key role in the founding of several institutio ...

Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Ind ...

Bloggers / media artists

Hasan M. Elahi Hasan M. Elahi (born 1972) is a Bangladeshi-born American interdisciplinary media artist whose work has an emphasis on technology and media and their social implications. His research interests include issues of surveillance, sousveillance, simu ...

, interdisciplinarysciplinary media artist *

Pritish Nandy Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is an Indian poet, painter, journalist, parliamentarian, media and television personality, animal activist and maker of films, TV and streaming content. He was a parliamentarian in the Rajya Sabha from Mahara ...

, poet, author, editor in chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India and Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group 1982-1991 * Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at ''The American Scene'' and associate editor of ''The Atlantic Monthly''

Business and industry

Billionaires

Sanjit Biswas Sanjit Biswas () is an American Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist and co-founder of Samsara (company), Samsara, an Internet of Things company headquartered in San Francisco, California that provides hardware and software for physical ope ...

, Indian American entrepreneur and CEO/ Co-founder of Samsara (company), built and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion. *

Ankiti Bose Ankiti Bose (born 1992) is a co-founder of e-commerce start-up Zilingo. She has been featured in Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list in 2018 as well as in Fortune's 40 Under 40 along with Bloomberg 50 in 2019. On 31 March 2022, she was suspended as ...

, Founder of

Zilingo Zilingo is a technology and commerce platform founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor, and has operations spanning Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Australia and the United States. In January 2023, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg re ...

Purnendu Chatterjee Purnendu Chatterjee is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of The Chatterjee Group (TCG) and also serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad. Education Chatterjee graduate ...

, Founder & Chairman, TCG Group, that owns

Haldia Petrochemicals Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd., often referred to as HPL, is one of the largest petrochemical companies in India, with a total capacity equivalent to 10,00,000 TPA of ethylene. It was formed out of a joint venture between the Government of West Benga ...

* Tapan Chowdhury, CEO and MD of

Square Pharmaceuticals Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a Bangladeshi Multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1958 by Samson H. Chowdhury along with three of his friends PK Saha, Kazi Harunur Roshid and Radhabinod Rai as a priva ...

Square Group Square Group () is a Bangladeshi diversified conglomerate based in Dhaka. Samuel S Chowdhury is the chairman and Tapan Chowdhury is managing director of Square Group. Square Group has 60 thousand employees. History Square Group was founded in ...

Square Hospital Square Hospital is a private hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of three high-end private hospital in Bangladesh, the other being Apollo Hospital Dhaka and United Hospital, Dhaka. Tapan Chowdhury is the managing director of the hospital. ...

and

Maasranga Television Maasranga Television ( bn, মাছরাঙা টেলিভিশন; ) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by the Square Group. It commenced broadcasts on 30 July 2011, and is based in Banani, Dhak ...

* Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Founder, Managing Director & CEO of Bandhan Bank * Pradeep Kar, Founder of Microland * Salman F Rahman, Founder & Vice Chairman of BEXIMCO *

Sunil Kanti Roy Sunil Kanti Roy (8 January 1944 – 8 May 2022), better known as S. K. Roy, was an Indian entrepreneur, business person and the managing director of Peerless Group, a Kolkata-based conglomerate, which has interests in finance, healthcare, insur ...

, Founder of

Peerless Group Peerless Group is an Indian business conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1932 by industrialist Radhashyam Roy (then a School Teacher) in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Its major holding company is Peerless Gen ...

* Aveek Sarkar, Vice Chairman & Editor Emeritus, Ananda Bazaar Patrika *

Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Ahmed Akbar Sobhan (Shah Alam) (born on 15 February 1952) is a Bangladeshi business magnate and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Bashundhara Group. Bashundhara Group operates in various lines of activities including real esta ...

, Founder and Chairman of the

Bashundhara Group Bashundhara Group ( bn, বসুন্ধরা গ্রুপ) is a Bangladeshi conglomerate. It is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. It was incorporated in 1987 as a real estate company venture under the name East West ...

Business leaders

Iqbal Ahmed Iqbal Ahmed ( bn, ইকবাল আহমেদ; born 4 August 1956) is a Bangladesh-born British entrepreneur. Based in Manchester, he made his fortune importing shrimp. His two companies, Seamark and Ibco, have extensive interests in shipp ...

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, entrepreneur and CEO of

Seamark Group Seamark Group is a multinational food processing conglomerate wholesale company with offices in Manchester, Chittagong, New Jersey and Brooklyn. The company was founded in 1976 and established in 1991 by Iqbal, Bilal and Kamal Ahmed. Hist ...

. In 2006, he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the ''Sunday Times'' Rich List (listed at number 511). He has a net worth of $250 million. * Syed Ahmed, British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality * Prith Banerjee, CTO of ANSYS, former Director of

HP Labs HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for HP Inc. HP Labs' headquarters is in Palo Alto, California and the group has research and development facilities in Bristol, UK. The development of programmable desktop calculators, ink ...

Arundhati Bhattacharya Arundhati Bhattacharya is a retired Indian people, Indian banker and former Chairman of State Bank of India, Chairperson of the State Bank of India. She is the first woman to be the Chairman of State Bank of India, Chairperson of State Bank of ...

, chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India and first woman director of

State Bank of India State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational public sector bank and financial services statutory body headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. SBI is the 49th largest bank in the world by total assets and ranked 221st in the ''Fortune ...

Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (6 June 1940 – 1 March 2019) was a British-Indian engineer, educator and government advis ...

, Director, Warwick Manufacturing Group * Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul, managing director of

Beacon Pharmaceuticals Beacon Pharmaceuticals Limited is a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company that develops generic version of medications. Beacon manufactures more than 200 generic drugs and 65 oncology products. Beacon is the first company in Bangladesh to start ex ...

* Sankar Chakraborti, Group CEO of Acuité Ratings and Research and founder of India's first ESG rating company, ESG Risk Assessments and Insights *

Moorad Choudhry Moorad Choudhry was formerly Head of Business Treasury, Global Banking and Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland. Education Choudhry attended Claremont Fan Court School. He graduated from the University of Westminster (known as Polytechnic of Ce ...

, former managing director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland *

Mamun Chowdhury Mamunur Rashid Chowdhury ( bn, মামুনুর রশিদ চৌধুরী; born November 1961) is a Bangladeshi-born British businessman, and founder and co-director of London Tradition. Early life Chowdhury is of Bangladeshi origin ...

, businessman, and founder and co-director of London Tradition. In 2014, the company was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise for

International Trade International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (see: World economy) In most countries, such trade represents a significant ...

in recognition of its increase in sales. * Rono Dutta, CEO of

IndiGo Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', m ...

Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Dr Ashok Shekar Ganguly noted industry expert and former chairman of Hindustan Lever, was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. His term ended on 17 November 2015. Early life and education He was born on 28 July 1935 in Patna to Sekhar Nath an ...

, former chairman, Hindustan Unilever * Aditya Ghosh, Co Founder of

Akasa Air Akasa Air, a brand of SNV Aviation Private Limited, is an Indian low-cost airline headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by Vinay Dube and Aditya Ghosh with investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala holding a 46% stake in the airline. T ...

, Co Founder of Chourangi restaurant in London, former CEO (2008-2018) of

, Board Director of

Oyo Rooms OYO Rooms (stylised as OYO), also known as OYO Hotels & Homes, is an Indian multinational hospitality chain of leased and franchised hotels, homes, and living spaces. Founded in 2012 by Ritesh Agarwal, OYO initially consisted mainly of budget ...

and

Fabindia Fabindia is an Indian chain store retailing garments, furnishings, fabrics and ethnic products Handicraft, handmade by craftspeople across rural India. Established in 1960 by John Bissell, an American working for the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, ...

Anirvan Ghosh Anirvan Ghosh ( bn, অনির্বাণ ঘোষ) is an American neuroscientist and Biotech executive. He served as the Global Head of Neuroscience Discovery at F. Hoffmann-La Roche from 2011 to 2016 and as founding CSO of E-Scape Bio fr ...

, CEO of

Unity Biotechnology Unity Biotechnology is a publicly traded American biotechnology company that develops drugs that target senescent cells. The company's products in development include UBX 1325, which targets Bcl-xL, a mechanism to eliminate senescent cells in ag ...

Asim Ghosh Asim Ghosh ( hi, असीम घोष; born December 7, 1947) is the former President and CEO of Husky Energy, one of Canada's largest integrated energy companies. He retired in December 2016 and sat on Husky's Board of Directors until December 2 ...

, former CEO of

Husky Energy Husky Energy Inc. is a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It operates in Western and Atlantic Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, with upstream and downstream business segm ...

Rajat Gupta Rajat Kumar Gupta (; born ) is an Indian-American businessman and convicted felon who, as CEO, was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. In 2012, he was convicted for insider ...

, first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

from 1994 to 2003; sentenced to two years of prison in 2012 for insider trading *

Omar Ishrak Omar S. Ishrak (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi-American business executive, serving as the chairman of the board for Intel, since January 2020. He was previously the CEO and chairman of the board of Medtronic from June 2011 to April 2020, and remain ...

, chairman, Intel * Mahee Ferdous Jalil, founder of

Channel S Channel S is a UK-based, free-to-air television channel targeting the British Bangladeshi community. The channel was established on 16 December 2004 by Mahee Ferdous Jalil, a Bangladeshi businessman in London. On Sky it at first had a timesha ...

, owner of Prestige Auto Group and TV presenter * Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee, Founder of Martin & Co. * Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman,

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

India *

Subir Raha Subir Raha ( bn, সুবীর রাহা) (28 August 1948 – 1 February 2010) a former Director (HR) of Indian Oil Corporation and ex-chairman and MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation received global recognition as Energy Executive of t ...

, former head, ONGC * Fayzur Rahman, chairman of

Novoair NOVOAIR ( bn, নভোএয়ার) is an airline based in Dhaka, Bangladesh operating mostly domestic flights. It operates 25 flights each day from Dhaka to its seven destinations. History NOVOAIR was established in October 2007 as an aviat ...

Mutty Lall Seal Mutty Lall Seal (also written as Mutty Loll Seal, Mati Lall Seal, or Motilal Seal) (1792 – 20 May 1854) was a businessman and philanthropist from India. Seal began his life as a bottle and cork dealer but later became very wealthy. He donated ...

, businessman and entrepreneur * Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the

British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

Entrepreneurs

* Muquim Ahmed, banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development. *

Badruddin Ajmal M. Badruddin Ajmal (born 12 February 1950) is an Indian businessman, politician, philanthropist and Islamic theologian from the state of Assam. He is the state-president of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for Assam. Biography Ajmal was born on 12 February ...

, managing director of Ajmal Perfumes and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri, Assam *

Enam Ali Enam Ali (; 1 December 1960 – 17 July 2022) was a Bangladeshi-born British businessman who founded The British Curry Awards, '' Spice Business Magazine'', and ''Ion TV''. Early life Ali was born in Sylhet District, East Pakistan (now Bangla ...

, founder of the

British Curry Awards The British Curry Awards is an annual awards dinner dedicated to the Curry#United Kingdom, British curry industry. It was established in 2005 by Enam Ali and has continued to this day. Each individual award is split for geographic purposes — regi ...

Spice Business Magazine ''Spice Business Magazine'' is a British quarterly trade magazine for the Indian restaurant business community. Content In 1998, ''Spice Business Magazine'' was launched. It features articles about UK food manufacturers, food and drinks distrib ...

and

Ion TV Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented entert ...

* Ragib Ali, industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker who has a net worth of $250 million. *

Subroto Bagchi Subroto Bagchi (born 31 May 1959) is an Indian entrepreneur and business leader. He is the co-founder of Mindtree, an Indian technology MNC. He has autobiographed his life story in his book ''Go Kiss the World''. Early life and education Bagch ...

, founder and former chairman,

Mindtree Mindtree Ltd was an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational information technology services and consulting company, headquartered in Bangalore. It is a part of the Larsen & Toubro Group. Since its foundation in 1999, the company has e ...

Somen Banerjee Somen "Steve" Banerjee ( bn, সোমেন বন্দোপাধ্যায়; October 8, 1946 – October 23, 1994) was an Indian entrepreneur, and the founder of Chippendales. Biography Somen Banerjee was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), I ...

, Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales * Siddhartha Basu, founder and CMD of

BIG Synergy Big Synergy Media Limited is a television production company headed by chief executive officer Rajiv Bakshi. It started as one of the country's first few independent television outfits in 1988. BIG Synergy is an acknowledged leader in factual en ...

Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the found ...

, founder of Bose Corporation *

, Founder and CEO of

Amjad Khan Chowdhury Amjad Khan Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi Army officer and founder of Bangladesh conglomerate PRAN-RFL Group. Early life and family Chowdhury was born on 10 November 1937 to Ali Qasim Khan Chowdhury and Amatur Rahman. He belongs to the branch of the ...

, founder of

PRAN-RFL Group PRAN-RFL Group ( bn, প্রাণ-আরএফএল গ্রুপ) is a Bangladeshi multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in Dhaka. It is the largest agribusiness & plastic product manufacturer in Bangladesh. Currently ...

Foysol Choudhury Foysol Hussain Choudhury, MBE ( bn, ফয়ছল হোসেন চৌধূরী; born 5 January 1969) is a Bangladeshi-born British businessman, and a Scottish Labour politician. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for ...

, businessman, community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council * Anjan Chatterjee, founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants *

Bicky Chakraborty Barun Bicky Chakraborty (28 August 1943 – 26 August 2022) was an Indian-born Swedish businessman. He was the president and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms. He was counted as one of the richest men in Scandinavia. ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

's biggest hotelier; President and founder of of

and * Alamohan Das, founder, India Machinery Company * Sadhan Dutt, founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group * Samit Ghosh, founder, MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank * Snehasish Ganguly, Director of NK Gossain & Co., brother of former Indian Cricket Team Captain and current

Board of Control for Cricket in India The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the world ...

President, Sourav Ganguly *

M. A. Hashem M. A. Hashem (30 August 1943 – 24 December 2020) was a Bangladeshi businessman and the founding chairman of Partex Group. He served as member of Parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Early life MA Hashem was born on 30 August 1 ...

, founder and chairman of Partex Group *

Shelim Hussain Shelim Hussain (born 20 February 1973) is a Bangladeshi-born British entrepreneur, and founder, chairman and managing director of Euro Foods. Early life Hussain was born in Bangladesh and was brought to the United Kingdom by his uncle and aun ...

, founder of

Euro Foods (UK) Euro Foods (UK) Ltd is a UK-based food distribution company, which makes and supplies ethnic food. The company was founded in 1993 by Shelim Hussain, its headquarters is in the town of Cwmbran, South Wales, and has over 2,400 employees. Histor ...

* Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, first person to upload a video to the site *

Nitun Kundu Nitya Gopal Kundu (3 December 1935 – 15 September 2006) was a Bangladeshi artist, sculptor and entrepreneur. Kundu played an important role during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. He founded the furniture company Otobi. Early life Ku ...

, founder of Otobi *

Abdul Latif Abdul Latif ( ar, عبد اللطيف, translit=ʻAbd al-Laṭīf) is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Laṭīf'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise to ...

, British restaurateur known for his dish "Curry Hell" *

Ayub Ali Master Ayub Ali Master ( bn, আইয়ুব আলী মাস্টার; died 1980), was an early British Bangladeshi social reformer, politician and entrepreneur. He is notable for pioneering social welfare work for many early British Asians. H ...

, founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant in London which became a hub for the early British Asian community. *

Tommy Miah Mohammad Ajman Miah ( bn, মোহাম্মদ আজমান মিয়া), MBE FRSA (born 28 March 1959), better known by his nick name Tommy Miah, is a Bangladeshi-born British celebrity chef, owner of the award-winning Raj Restaurant ...

, celebrity chef, restaurateur and founder of the Indian Chef of the Year Competition. * Abdul Monem, founder of

Abdul Monem Limited Abdul Monem Limited (AML) is one of the largest Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates. The industries under this conglomerate include beverages, sugar refinery, consumer products, real estate, construction materials etc. AML was established by ...

* Rajendra Nath Mookerjee, co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd,

IISCO IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited is an integrated steel plant located at Burnpur, a neighbourhood in Asansol city, in the Asansol subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. Overview IISCO Steel Plan ...

Sabyasachi Mukherjee Sabyasachi Mukherjee (born 23 February 1974) is an Indian fashion designer, jewelry designer, retailer and couturier from Kolkata, India. Since 1999, he has sold designer merchandise using the label Sabyasachi. Mukherjee is one of the Associat ...

, Founder & Managing Director of luxury Indian fashion brand, Sabyasachi *

Rajat Neogy Rajat Neogy (December 17, 1939 – December 3, 1995),Paul Theroux ''The Independent'', 15 January 1996, a Ugandan of Indian Bengali ancestry, was a writer, poet and publisher. In Kampala in 1961, at the age of 22, he founded ''Transition Magazine'', ...

, founder and editor, ''

Transition Magazine ''Transition Magazine'' was established in 1961 by Rajat Neogy as ''Transition Magazine: An International Review''. It was published from 1961 to 1976 in various countries on the African continent, and since 1991 in the United States. In recent y ...

'' in

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

in 1961 *

Diptendu Pramanick Diptendu Pramanick (July 18, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was a Bengali film personality from Calcutta. He was the founder secretary of the ''Eastern India Motion Pictures Association'' in Calcutta, India - a fraternity of film personnel which ...

, founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA) *

Kamal Quadir Kamal S. Quadir is a Bangladeshi American entrepreneur and artist best known for introducing e-commerce in Bangladesh by founding CellBazaar, an electronic marketplace which, after reaching 4 million users, was acquired by Norwegian telecommunic ...

, founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow * Moulvi Syed Qudratullah, founder of Moulvibazar *

Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi ( bn, শাহ আবদুল মজিদ কোরেশী), also known by his daak naam Moina Meah ( bn, ময়না মিঞা), was an early British Bangladeshi restaurateur and social reformer. He is nota ...

, restaurateur *

Bajloor Rashid Bajloor Rashid, ( bn, বজলুর রশিদ; born 28 May 1962) is a Bangladeshi-born British restaurateur, philanthropist and humanitarian. From 2006 to 2012, he was the president for the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK. Early life R ...

, businessman and former president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK *

Arjun Ray Lieutenant General Arjun Ray, PVSM, VSM is a former general officer of the Indian Army. He is presently the Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Indus Trust, since 1 April 2002. He is a graduate of the Staff Colle ...

(PVSM, VSM), founder, managing director and chief executive officer of the Indus Trust and Indus International Schools *

Neeraj Roy Neeraj or Niraj (Devanagari: नीरज ) is a Hindu masculine given name. The Sanskrit word ' is a compound of ' 'water' and ' 'born' and has the primary meaning of 'lotus'. The same Sanskrit word can also be a compound of ' 'without' (which ...

, co-founder, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. *

Prannoy Roy Prannoy Lal Roy (born 15 October 1949) is an Indian economist, chartered accountant, psephologist, journalist and author. He is the former executive co-chairperson of NDTV and is considered to be one of its co-founders, along with his wife Ra ...

, founder,

NDTV New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...

Subrata Roy Subrata Roy (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman who founded Sahara India Pariwar in 1978. Sahara India Pariwar has operated a vast number of businesses such as Aamby Valley City, Sahara Movie Studios, Air Sahara, hockey sport ...

, founder and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar *

, managing director of

* Chiki Sarkar, Founder and Publisher of

Juggernaut Books Juggernaut Books (informally Juggernaut) is digital book publishing house headquartered in New Delhi, India. The publisher emphasizes on short length books written by new writers. It also allows writers to self-publish their books through their ...

Barun Sengupta Barun Sengupta ( bn, বরুণ সেনগুপ্ত) (23 January 1934 – 19 June 2008), the founder-editor of ''Bartaman'' newspaper, was a Bengali journalist and popular political critic. He is remembered for his bold and simple dicti ...

, founder of Bartaman *

Moosa Bin Shamsher Moosa Bin Shamsher ( bn, মুসা বিন শমসের; born 15 October 1945) is a Bangladeshi businessman and the chairman and chief executive officer of DATCO Group. The main purpose of the group is to export labor from Bangladesh to ...

, founder of GATCO * Wali Tasar Uddin, entrepreneur, restaurateur and Chairman of the Bangladesh-British Chamber of Commerce *

Iqbal Quadir Iqbal Z. Quadir ( bn, ইকবাল জেড. কাদীর) is an entrepreneur and promoter of the role of entrepreneurship and innovations in creating prosperity in low-income countries. He has taught at Harvard Kennedy School and at Mas ...

, Founder of

Grameenphone Grameenphone, widely abbreviated as (d/b/a) GP, is the leading telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh, with 83.02 million subscribers (as of January 2022). It is a joint venture between Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation. Telen ...

and

bKash bKash ( bn, বিকাশ) is a mobile financial service in Bangladesh operating under the authority of Bangladesh Bank as a subsidiary of BRAC Bank Limited. This mobile money system started as a joint venture between BRAC Bank Limited, Bangl ...

* Muhammad Yunus, founder of

Grameen Bank Grameen Bank ( bn, গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance organisation and community development bank founded in Bangladesh. It makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") to the impoverished without requi ...

, "father of micro-finance", Nobel laureate

Sahitya Akademi Award

Cartoonists / comics creators

Jayanto Banerjee Jayanto Banerjee (born 1958), who signs his work Jayanto, is an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. He created the character of the singing donkey Gardhab Das with his cartoonist brother Neelabh Banerjee for the Indian children's magazine ''Target (m ...

, Indian cartoonist and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

* Neelabh Banerjee, Indian cartoonist and illustrator *

Sarnath Banerjee Sarnath Banerjee (born 1972) is an Indian graphic novelist, artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the comics publishing house, Phantomville. Biography Banerjee was born in Calcutta and lives and works in Delhi, India. He studied image and commu ...

, graphic story

writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...

, co-founded the comics publishing house

Phantomville Phantomville is a graphic novel company set up by writer/artist Sarnath Banerjee and Anindya Roy. Its aim is to provide a platform for Indian writers and artists to produce mature graphic novels. Related works * ''Corridor'' * '' The Barn Owl' ...

* Samit Basu, comics writer at Virgin Comics *

Suddhasattwa Basu Suddhasattwa Basu (born 1956) is an Indian author, painter, illustrator, and animator. Born in West Bengal, he spent his childhood in a small town named Chandannagar, West Bengal. Basu studied fine arts at the Government College of Art & Craft ...

, illustrator * Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, Indian cartoonist *

Rimi B. Chatterjee Rimi Barnali Chatterjee is an Indian author and professor of English at Jadavpur University. Career Chatterjee is an author, translator, and professor of English at Jadavpur University. She completed her Ph.D at Oxford University in 1997. She b ...

, graphic story writer *

Shamik Dasgupta Shamik Dasgupta is an Indian comic book writer. He has done work for Virgin Comics, specifically for '' Ramayan 3392 A.D.'' a series based on the ancient Hindu epic ''Ramayana'' and set in a distant future. He has also written a one shot horror ...

, graphic story writer *

Narayan Debnath Narayan Debnath (25 November 1925 – 18 January 2022) was an Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator. He created the Bengali comic strips '' Handa Bhonda'' (1962), ''Bantul the Great'' (1965) and ''Nonte Phonte'' (1969). He holds the reco ...

, creator of ''

Nonte Phonte ''Nonte Phonte'' also spelled as ''Nonte Fonte'', is a Bengali comic-strip (and later comic book) creation in 1969 by Narayan Debnath, which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine ''Kishore Bharati'' ( bn, কিশোর ...

'', '' Batul the Great'', ''

Handa Bhonda ''Handa Bhonda'' ( bn, হাঁদা-ভোঁদা), also referred to as ''Hada Bhoda'' is a Bengali comic-strip (and later comic book) creation of Narayan Debnath, which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine ''Shukt ...

'' *

Chandi Lahiri Chandi Lahiri (March 13, 1931 – January 18, 2018) was an Indian journalist and cartoonist. Early life Chandi Lahiri was born in the historical township of Nabadwip, West Bengal. He was born to Mohini Mohan and Probodhbala Lahiri. He was invo ...

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

and painter *

, filmmaker, creator of comic characters like Feluda and

Professor Shonku Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku (Bengali: প্রফেসর শঙ্কু) is a fictional scientist and inventor created by Satyajit Ray in a series of Bengali science fiction books of the same name published from 1965. He is the central pr ...

* Atanu Roy, illustrator *

Gaganendranath Tagore Gaganendranath Tagore (17 September 1867 – 14 February 1938) was an Bengali painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school. Along with his brother Abanindranath Tagore, he was counted as one of the earliest modern artists in India. Life and car ...

, cartoonist and

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Cinematographers

* Ayananka Bose *

Sudeep Chatterjee Sudeep Chatterjee ( bn, সুদীপ চ্যাটার্জী) is an Indian cinemaatographer, who mainly works in Hindi films and Bengali films. He has collaborated with critically acclaimed directors like Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Nagesh ...

Subrata Mitra Subrata Mitra (12 October 1930 – 7 December 2001) was an Indian cinematographer. Acclaimed for his work in ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959), Mitra often is considered one of the greatest Indian cinematographers. Early life and educati ...

Avik Mukhopadhyay Avik Mukhopadhyay is an Indian cinematographer who works in Bengali and Hindi films. He collaborated with eminent directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen, Srijit Mukherji, Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, Anik Dutta, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Shoojit Si ...

Soumendu Roy Soumendu Roy (born 1933) is an Indian cinematographer most known for his work with noted director Satyajit Ray's films, starting with ''Teen Kanya'' (1961), when Subrata Mitra developed an eye-problem, though he has earlier shot Ray's documenta ...

Criminals

* Dhananjoy Chatterjee, first person judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder * Roshu Kha, serial killer *

Ershad Sikder Ershad Sikder (1955 – 10 May 2004) was a Bangladeshi criminal and serial killer, known for committing various crimes such as murder, torture, theft, robbery and others. He was sentenced to death for murder, and subsequently executed on 10 May 20 ...

, a Bangladeshi criminal and a serial killer from khulna city

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners

* Ashok Kumar * Hrishikesh Mukherjee *

Pankaj Mullick Pankaj Kumar Mullick (10 May 1905 – 19 February 1978) was an Indian music composer, playback singer and actor, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent ...

* Devika Rani, first awardee *

* Mrinal Sen * Tapan Sinha *

B. N. Sircar Birendranath Sircar (also Sarkar; 5 July 1901 – 28 November 1980) was an Indian film producer and the founder of New Theatres Calcutta. He made Bengali-language films that were noted for introducing many film directors who later became famous ...

Diplomats

* Sanjay Bhattacharya, Ambassador to Switzerland *

Atul Chandra Chatterjee Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee (Bengali: অতুল চন্দ্র চ্যাটার্জী; 24 November 1874 – 8 September 1955) was an Indian diplomat and government official who served as the Indian High Commissioner to the Unite ...

, Former Ambassador to the UK * Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Former Ambassador to China *

Bhupendra Nath Mitra Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra (Bengali: ভূপেন্দ্র নাথ মিত্র) (October 1875 – 25 February 1937) was an Indian government official and diplomat who served as the third Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom fr ...

, Former Ambassador to the UK *

Binay Ranjan Sen Binay Ranjan Sen, CIE, ICS (1 January 1898, Dibrugarh, India - 12 June 1993, Calcutta, India), was an Indian diplomat and Indian Civil Service officer. He served as Director General (1956–1967) of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organizatio ...

, Former Ambassador to the US *

Ronen Sen Ranendra "Ronen" Sen (born 9 April 1944) is an Indian diplomat who was India's ambassador to the United States of America from August 2004 to March 2009. His contribution to the landmark US India Nuclear Deal of 2005 is considered of immense ...

, Former Ambassador to the US and UK *

Samar Sen (diplomat) Samar Sen (10 August 1914 16 February 2003) was an Indian diplomat who served as the 1st Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, permanent representative of India to the United Nations, Geneva, 8th in New York and the 2nd List ...

, served as the 1st permanent representative to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

* Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Former Ambassador to the US

Economists

* Salahuddin Ahmed, 9th Governor of Bangladesh Bank *

Mir Masoom Ali Mir Masoom Ali (born February 1, 1937) is a Bangladeshi American statistician, Distinguished Professor, educator, researcher and author. He migrated to the United States in 1969 and became a naturalized citizen in 1981. Ali founded the graduate a ...

, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University * Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, co-founder of the

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fi ...

, winner of Nobel Prize *

Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan (born 11 September 1939 in Calcutta) is an Indian economist who has taught and worked in the United States since 1979. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Biography Bardhan received ...

, professor of economics,

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals * Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist,

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics,

, first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India * P.C. Bhattacharya, former governor of

Reserve Bank of India The Reserve Bank of India, chiefly known as RBI, is India's central bank and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It is responsible for ...

Amitava Bose Amitava Bose was a professor of economics at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He was also a former director of IIM-C. Education Bose received his B.A. degree in Economics from Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, in 1967, ...

, professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta * Suma Chakrabarti, President of

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies. Initially focus ...

Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri (known as S B Chaudhuri; 1931 – 11 November 2020) was a Bangladeshi economist who served as the fourth governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh during 1987–1992, and was also the advisor of the firs ...

, 4th Governor of Bangladesh Bank * Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, one of the founders, in 1949, of the internationally known journal ''The Economic Weekly'' (current name, ''

Economic and Political Weekly The ''Economic and Political Weekly'' (''EPW'') is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust. In January 2018, academic Gopal Guru was named the new Editor of the journal. Guru wil ...

'') * Partha Dasgupta, FRS, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics,

* Bibek Debroy, economist and linguist, author of Sanskrit titbits blog * Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant economic historian * Mohammed Farashuddin, 7th Governor of Bangladesh Bank, founder of East West University *

, statistician from the

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

* Maitreesh Ghatak, current editor of ''

Journal of Development Economics The ''Journal of Development Economics'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics. Its editor-in-chief from 1985 to 2003 was Pr ...

''; contributions in

microfinance Microfinance is a category of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services. Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision of small loans to poor clients; savings ...

, property pights, public organizations *

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
, ''Encyclopædia Britannica''

, former governor of

* N. C. Sen Gupta, former governor of

Nurul Islam Nurul Islam ( bn, নূরুল ইসলাম, , Light of Islam) is a Bengali masculine given name of Arabic origin and may refer to: People * A. K. Muhammad Nurul Islam (1919–2015), Bangladeshi politician, justice and vice-president of Bang ...

, economist, former chairman, Bangladesh Planning Commission * Akbar Ali Khan, economist * Shah A M S Kibria, economist, diplomat and former executive secretary of the

ESCAP The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It was established in order to increase economic ...

* Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of

* Syed Abdul Majid, pioneer of the agricultural industry of Bengal & Assam, first minister of Assam * Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, former Finance Minister of Bangladesh * Saifur Rahman, longest serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh and a leader of BNP * Debraj Ray, Silver Professor of Economics, New York University; co-editor of the ''

American Economic Review The ''American Economic Review'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Economic Association. First published in 1911, it is considered one of the most prestigious and highly distinguished journals in the field of ec ...

''; has served on the editorial board of several international journals *

, economist and philosopher, Lamont Professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, winner of the Nobel Prize * Rehman Sobhan, economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) * Muhammad Yunus, economist, founder of

, winner of the Nobel Prize

Fellows of the Royal Society

Kumar Bhattacharyya Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (6 June 1940 – 1 March 2019) was a British-Indian engineer, educator and government advis ...

Jagdish Chandra Bose Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (;, ; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions ...

Satyendra Nath Bose Satyendra Nath Bose (; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was a Bengali mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for ...

* Partha Dasgupta *

* Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis * Ashesh Prasad Mitra * Sisir Kumar Mitra * Meghnad Saha * Ashoke Sen

Fictional characters

Filmmakers

Grammy winners

Sandeep Das Sandeep Das is an Indian tabla player and composer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma for The Silk Road Ensemble - Sing Me Home - won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album at the 59th ...

, award for Best World Music Album, at the

59th Grammy Awards The 59th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on February 12, 2017. The CBS network broadcast the show live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The ceremony recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, ...

, 2017 * Norah Jones, 9-time winner *

, 5-time winner

Journalists

Bangladesh

Shah Alamgir Shah Alamgir (died 28 February 2019) was a Bangladeshi journalist. He served as the Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh. He joined the post on 7 July 2013. Before joining PIB, he worked as a journalist. Birth and family identity ...

, journalist *

Syed Mohammad Ali Syed Mohammad Ali (9 December 1928 – 17 October 1993) was a Bengali journalist and editor. Ali began his career in East Pakistan. He became an editor for several newspapers in East Asia, including ''The Bangkok Post'' in Thailand, the ''Hong Kon ...

, founder of The Daily Star - the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in

. * Mahfuz Anam *

Abul Asad Abul Asad (born 1942) is a Bangladeshi writer and journalist. He is the editor of one of the oldest national dailies in Bangladesh ''The Daily Sangram''. He is admired by Islam loving youth of Bangladesh for his thriller series, Saimum Series. He ...

Nurjahan Begum Nurjahan Begum (4 June 1925 – 23 May 2016) was the first female journalist in Bangladesh and a trailblazer for female journalists in South Asia. Begum was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2011 by the Government of Bangladesh. She served as the editor ...

* Salah Choudhury, editor of

Weekly Blitz Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is a Bangladeshi journalist and the editor of the Bangladeshi newspaper 'Blitz'. Choudhury has faced a number of criminal charges against him including smuggling information out of the country, fraud, sedition, tre ...

Sanjeeb Choudhury , birth_date = , birth_place = Baniachang, Habiganj, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) , death_date = , death_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh , nationality = Bangladeshi , education = MSC , alma_mater ...

Shamim Chowdhury Shamim Ara Chowdhury ( bn, শামীম আরা চৌধুরী) is an English television and print journalist. Early life and education Chowdhury was born into a Bengali Muslim Chowdhury family in England, United Kingdom. Her parents ...

, TV and print journalist for

Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة‎, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is own ...

Lenin Gani Lenin Gani ( bn, লেনিন গনি) (9 December 1967- May 2013) was a highly respected Bangladeshi sports journalist. He was the sports editor of ''New Age'', and later '' Bdnews24.com'', and was a senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Jo ...

, senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association *

Abdul Hafiz ʻAbd al-Ḥafīẓ (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحفيظ) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥafīẓ'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give ri ...

, writer, essayist and journalist * Shahriar Kabir *

Abed Khan Abed Khan ( bn, আবেদ খান; born 16 April 1945) is a Bangladeshi journalist and columnist. He has been an influential figure in the Bangladeshi news industry in various capacities for five decades. Khan is currently editor and publis ...

Sirajul Hossain Khan Sirajul Hossain Khan (1926-2007) was a Jatiya Party politician and former minister and member of parliament for Habiganj-2. Early life Khan was born on 17 July 1926, in Baniachong village, Baniachong Upazila, Habiganj subdivision, Sylhet dis ...

, editor of Pakistan Times and the Eastern News Agency. *

Fazle Lohani Fazle Lohani (12 March 1929 – 30 October 1985) was a Bangladeshi journalist, television host, songwriter and film producer. He was best known for his popular Bengali-language TV news magazine show Jodi Kichhu Mone Na Koren, which aired on Bang ...

A B M Musa A B M Musa (28 February 19319 April 2014) was a Bengali journalist. He was the chief editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS). He was awarded Ekushey Padak for journalism in 1999 by the Government of Bangladesh. Education Musa was born in Fe ...

* Syed Nahas Pasha, journalist and editor of

Janomot ''Janomot'' ( bn, জনমত) is a British Bengali-language weekly newspaper. Content ''Janomot'' was founded in London and established on 21 February 1969. It is the first Bengali weekly newspaper, the first ethnic minority newspaper in Brit ...

and Curry Life *

Abdul Quadir Abdul Quadir (1 June 1906 – 19 December 1984) was a Bangladeshi poet, essayist, and journalist. He was the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1963 and Ekushey Padak in 1976. Early life and education Quadir was born in the village of ...

, poet, essayist and journalist * Matiur Rahman * Manik Chandra Saha *

Ataus Samad Ataus Samad (16 November 1937 – 26 September 2012) was a Bangladeshi journalist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1992 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and education Samad was born November 16, 1937, in Kishoreganj District. He earne ...

Shykh Seraj Shykh Seraj (born 7 September 1954) is a Bangladeshi journalist, media personality and agriculture development activist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1995 and Independence Day Award in 2018 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life Seraj c ...

Hassan Shahriar Hassan Shahriar (25 April 1946 – 10 April 2021) was a Bangladeshi journalist, columnist, and political analyst. Early life and career Shahriar was born on 25 April 1946 at Sunamganj, a district of Greater Sylhet region. Shahriar served ''The ...

, journalist

India

Swapan Dasgupta Swapan Dasgupta (born 3 October 1955) is an Indian journalist and politician. He is influential within the Indian right wing, writing columns for leading English dailies espousing Hindu nationalism. He is a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. ...

, journalist *

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray Sunanda K. Datta-Ray is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of ''The Statesman'' (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the '' International Herald Tribune'' and ''Time''. He was editor-in-Residence at the East-West Center in Hon ...

, journalist *

Sagarika Ghose Sagarika Ghose (born 8 November 1964) is an Indian journalist, columnist and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at ''The Times of India'', ''Outlook'' and ''The Indian Express''. She was a prime time anchor for BBC Wor ...

, editor at CNN-IBN *

Chandan Mitra Chandan Mitra ( bn, চন্দন মিত্র; 12 December 1954 – 1 September 2021) was an Indian journalist and politician who was the editor and managing director of '' The Pioneer'' newspaper in Delhi. He was also a two-term member o ...

, editor and managing director of ''The Pioneer'' newspaper *

Ramananda Chatterjee Ramananda Chatterjee ( bn, রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the '' Modern Review''. He has been described as th ...

, "father of Indian journalism" * Udayan Mukherjee, editor and anchor in CNBC India *

, Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group; Editor in Chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India; chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd *

, founder and President of

, one of India's largest television and media production houses *

Samar Sen Samar Sen ( bn, সমর সেন; 10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987) was a prominent Indian Bengali language, Bengali poet and journalist in the post-Independence era. Education Samar Sen was a graduate of the Scottish Church College, at t ...

, journalist *

, political critic, founder-editor of ''Bartaman'' newspaper *

Vishnu Som Vishnu Som (born July 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is an Indian news anchor and journalist. He is the Executive Editor and Principal Anchor with New Delhi Television (NDTV), India's first 24-hour news network. Som reported extensively on war, envi ...

, news anchor and journalist

America

* Sanjiv Bhattacharya *

Bobby Ghosh Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh is an Indian-born American journalist and commentator. He is a columnist and member of the editorial board at Bloomberg Opinion. Starting in 2016, Ghosh was editor-in-chief of the ''Hindustan Times''. He was previously ma ...

(Aparisim Ghosh), journalist, former ''TIME'' magazine World Editor; the first non-American to be named World Editor in ''TIME''s more than 80 years * Reihan Salam

United Kingdom

Fareena Alam Fareena Alam (born 1978) is a British journalist and program designer. She was formerly the editor of '' Q News''. Background and career Alam was born in London, England to Bangladeshi Chittagonian parents. She spent her childhood and formati ...

Lisa Aziz Lisa Soraya Aziz (born 19 June 1962) is a British news presenter. She is best known as the presenter of the Morning News on LBC. Before this she worked for ITV Westcountry as a co-presenter for the evening news programme: The West Country Tonig ...

, British television news presenter * Mihir Bose, BBC's head sports editor *

Reeta Chakrabarti Reeta Chakrabarti (born 12 December 1964) is a British journalist, newsreader and correspondent for BBC News. She is known for presenting ''BBC News at One'', ''BBC News at Six'', ''BBC News at Ten'' and ''BBC Weekend News'', and presenting regul ...

, political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel *

Mo Dutta Mohit Dutta (born 1971), is a television and radio presenter known for his dry sense of humour, who presented Saturday and Sunday morning shows on BBC Radio 2 between 1 July 1995 to 30 May 2009. He has also been a familiar face on BBC1's Daytime ...

, former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent * Pallab Ghosh, BBC News science reporter * Nina Hossain, British television news broadcaster *

Faisal Islam Faisal Islam ( bn, ফয়সাল ইসলাম; born 29 May 1977) is a British political and economics journalist who is the economics editor of BBC News and the occasional presenter of ''Newsnight''. He was the political editor of Sky N ...

, current Economics Editor of

BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...

. Former Political Editor of

Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the hea ...

Tasmin Lucia Khan Tasmin Lucia-Khan (born 18 July 1980) is a British film producer, television personality, news anchor and entrepreneur. In the UK, she is most known for being the face of BBC Three ''60 Seconds'', hosting ''E24'' on BBC News (TV channel), BBC N ...

, English journalist and television presenter *

Hasina Momtaz Hasina Momtaz ( bn, হাসিনা মমতাজ) is a British news presenter, media and communications expert and former press officer for the Mayor of London between 2003 and 2011. Early life Momtaz was born in Beanibazar, Sylhet, Ea ...

, former

press officer A press secretary or press officer is a senior advisor who provides advice on how to deal with the news media and, using news management techniques, helps their employer to maintain a positive public image and avoid negative media coverage. Duti ...

for the Mayor of London *

Sarah Mukherjee Sarah Mukherjee MBE (born 1967) is a former BBC Environment Correspondent. She was born in London and was educated at Loughton County High School in Essex, before attending St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read Law. After working at the House ...

, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently a regular contributor on Radio 4's ''Today'' programme

Pakistan

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah ( bn, জেবুন্নেসা হামিদুল্লাহ, ur, ; 25 December 1918 – 10 September 2000) was a Pakistani writer and journalist. She was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in ...

, Pakistan's first female editor; first woman to be included in a press delegation; in 1955, became the first woman to speak at the ancient al Azhar University in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

, Egypt * Altaf Husain, 1st

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper, ''

Dawn Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizo ...

'' and former Industry Minister of Pakistan

Qatar

Shiulie Ghosh Shiulie Ghosh ( bn, , /ʃjuli ghɔːʃ/, born 28 September 1968) is a freelance television journalist, conference moderator, author and director of a media services company. Shiulie formerly worked for the BBC, ITN and Aljazeera. She moderates d ...

, television journalist at

Uganda

, journalist, poet, columnist, founding editor of ''

Law

Shohid Ali Mohd. Shohid Ali (1914 – 1992) was a Bangladeshi advocate. Career Ali was a lawyer and a politician in Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was born in Chandbhorang (Biswanath subdivision), Sylhet in 1914 to M Musson Ali and Korful Nessa. Ali was the ...

, advocate *

Syed Ameer Ali Syed Ameer Ali Order of the Star of India (1849–1928) was an Indian/ British Indian jurist hailing from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down at Bengal Presidency. He was a prominent political leader, and author of a n ...

, prominent Indian (British Indian) lawyer, key jurist of Muslim personal law, founding member of

All India Muslim League The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when a group of prominent Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontin ...

* Bankim Chandra Ray, former Chief Justice of India * Kalyan Banerjee,

Rotary International Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world. Its stated mission is to "provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through hefellowship of business, prof ...

's 101st President * Gooroodas Banerjee, former High Court judge, Calcutta *

Mahmudul Amin Choudhury Mahmudul Amin Choudhury (18 June 1937 – 22 December 2019) was a Bangladeshi jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Bangladesh The chief justice of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশের প্রধান বিচারপ ...

, 11th Chief Justice of Bangladesh * Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India *

Monomohun Ghose Manmohun Ghose (''Mônmohon Ghosh'') (also spelt Monomohun Ghosh, Manmohan Ghosh) (13 March 1844 – 16 October 1896) was the first practicing barrister of Indian origin.Cotton, H.E.A., ''Calcutta Old and New'', 1909/1980, pp. 639-40, General P ...

, first practising

barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

origin * Kamal Hossain, considered the architect of Bangladeshi Constitution and icon of secular democracy in South Asia; prominent international lawyer and arbitrator *

Sara Hossain Sara Hossain is a leading Bangladeshi lawyer. She is a barrister in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Hossain is the honorary executive director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), a major legal aid provider. Hossain has been at ...

, Bangladeshi lawyer, executive director of BLAST, one of the recipients of the 2016

International Women of Courage Award The International Women of Courage Award, also referred to as the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award, is an American award presented annually by the United States Department of State to women around the world who have ...

* Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain, 2nd Chief Justice of Bangladesh * J. R. Mudassir Husain, 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh *

M Amir-ul Islam M Amir-ul Islam ( bn, এম আমীর-উল ইসলাম; born 2 January 1936) is a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He drafted the proclamation of independence of Bangladesh in 1971 and was a member of the drafting committee of Ba ...

, Bangladeshi Lawyer, member of the drafting committee of Bangladeshi constitution * Altamas Kabir, former Chief Justice of India * Irene Khan, Bangladeshi lawyer, first woman to be appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion; seventh Secretary General of

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

(2001–2009); former Director-General of the International Development Law Organization * Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan, nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012 *

Nitish Chandra Laharry Nitish Chandra Laharry (1892–1964) was an Indian lawyer, social worker and film producer from Kolkata. He was the first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of Rotary International and was the producer of the first motion pi ...

, first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of

Sabyasachi Mukharji Sabyasachi Mukharji (1 June 1927 – 25 September 1990) was an Indian jurist, who was the twentieth Chief Justice of India. He also previously served as the acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. Family Background Sabyasachi Mukharj ...

, former Chief Justice of India *

Bijan Kumar Mukherjea Bijan Kumar Mukherjea ( bn, বিজন কুমার মুখার্জী; 15 August 1891 – 22 February 1956) was the 4th Chief Justice of India. He was in his office from 22 December 1954 to 31 January 1956. Avocation Joined Calcut ...

, former Chief Justice of India *

Abdul Moshabbir Abdul Moshabbir (-28 November 2018) Politician of Habiganj district of Bangladesh, Lawyer And elected a member of parliament from Habiganj-1. Birth and early life Abdul Moshabbir was born in 1938 in Srimatpur village of Kaliar Bhanga Union i ...

, lawyer and politician * Radhabinod Pal, Indian member appointed to the

International Military Tribunal for the Far East The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for crimes against peace, conven ...

, one of the three Asian judges of Tokyo trial *

A. N. Ray Ajit Nath Ray (29 January 1912 – 25 December 2009) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 25 April 1973 till his retirement on 28 January 1977. Ray was the lone dissenter among the eleven Supreme Court judges that examine ...

, former Chief Justice of India *

Khatun Sapnara Khatun Sapnara ( bn, খাতুন সাপনারা; born 29 April 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British judge. In 2006, she was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court, becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial ...

, judge and first non-white to be elected to the Family Law Bar Association Committee. In 2006, she was appointed as a

Recorder Recorder or The Recorder may refer to: Newspapers * ''Indianapolis Recorder'', a weekly newspaper * ''The Recorder'' (Massachusetts newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Greenfield, Massachusetts, US * ''The Recorder'' (Port Pirie), a news ...

of the Crown, which made her the only person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial position. *

Amal Kumar Sarkar Justice Amal Kumar Sarkar ( bn, অমল কুমার সরকার) (29 June 1901 – 18 December 2001) was the eighth Chief Justice of India, from 16 March 1966 up to his retirement on 29 June 1966. Education He studied at the pr ...

, former Chief Justice of India *

Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (29 March 1916 – 8 July 1997) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman. He was first Chief Justice of Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975. He became the President of Bangladesh in the aftermath of counter-coups in November 197 ...

, first Chief Justice of Bangladesh *

Amarendra Nath Sen Amarendra Nath Sen (born 1 October 1920) was a Bengali Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1979 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of India. His grandfather Baikuntha Nath Sen was a notable political lea ...

, former judge in

Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme judicial authority of India and is the highest court of the Republic of India under the constitution. It is the most senior constitutional court, has the final decision in all legal matters ...

Ashoke Kumar Sen Ashoke Kumar Sen (10 October 1913 – 21 September 1996) was an Indian barrister, a former Cabinet minister of India, and an Indian parliamentarian. He also holds the record for winning a Lok Sabha seat the most times and also the record for b ...

, Indian barrister, former Cabinet minister of India, Indian parliamentarian *

Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, KCSI, PC, KC, (24 March 1863 – 4 March 1928) was a prominent British India lawyer and statesman. He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first I ...

, prominent lawyer and statesman in British India, first Indian to become member of British cabinet

Magicians

* Jewel Aich * Maneka Sorcar *

P. C. Sorcar Protul Chandra Sorcar (23 February 19136 January 1971) was an Indian magician. He was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his ''Indrajal'' show before live audiences and on television. Sorcar died of a ...

* P. C. Sorcar, Jr.

Musicians

Bangla rock

Shafin Ahmed Shafin Ahmed (born 14 February 1961) is a Bangladeshi rock bassist, singer-songwriter, record producer and politician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and bassist for the Bangladeshi rock band Miles, where he and his elder brother Hamin Ah ...

Shishir Ahmed Aurthohin is a Bangladeshi rock band formed in Dhaka in 1998 by Saidus Sumon (vocals and bass guitar), Tonmoy Rahman (lead guitar), Ponir (rhythm guitar) and Rumi Rahman (drums and percussion). They are considered to be one of the pioneering ...

* Ayub Bachchu, founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band

Love Runs Blind (LRB) Love Runs Blind, often abbreviated as LRB, was a Bangladeshi Rock music, rock band formed in Chittagong City by Ayub Bachchu from 5 April 1991 until 18 October 2018. They are one of the most successful bands of Bangladesh. Since their formation ...

* Balam * Partha Barua *

Chandril Bhattacharya Chandril Bhattacharya ( bn, চন্দ্রিল ভট্টাচার্য) is a popular Bengali essayist, lyricist, poet, orator and director from Kolkata. Music Bhattacharya is one of the main lyricists of the Bengali band Chandrabin ...

, lyricist and one of the founders of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo * Nachiketa Chakraborty *

Anindya Chatterjee Anindya Chatterjee is an Indian bengali film director, music director, singer, lyricist, actor and producer based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the singer-lyricist of prominent Bengali band Chandrabindoo. In recent times he has composed ...

, lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band

Chandrabindoo Chandrabindu (IAST: , in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Telugu (ఁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scr ...

Gautam Chattopadhyay Gautam Chattopadhyay (1 June 1949 – 20 June 1999) was an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. In 1975, as a leader he founded the progressive rock band Moheener Ghoraguli with Tapas Das, Abraham Mazumdar, Pradip Chatt ...

, composer, founder of the group

Mohiner Ghoraguli Moheener Ghoraguli (, literally "Moheen's horses") was an Indian rock group from Kolkata, established in 1975. Their music drew from wide variety of influences, including Bengali folk, Baul, urban American folk, and jazz. They sometimes descri ...

, One of the first rock vocalists of India *

Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury is an Indian Bengali singer. She rose to fame with the release of 'Tumi Asbe Bole' & 'Jagarane Jay Bibhabaree' from the Bengali film Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona in 2011. She has been a prominent singer in Bengali films s ...

, lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces *

Anjan Dutt Anjan Dutt (Bengali: অঞ্জন দত্ত) is an Indian film director, actor, and singer-songwriter known for his work in the Bengali alternative music genre ''anyodharar gaan''. As an actor, Dutt began his career in Bengali cinema i ...

, singer, composer and lyricist *

Rupam Islam Rupam Islam (born 25 January 1974) is an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, music composer, writer and humanist. He is the lead vocalist of the popular Bengali Rock Band Fossils. He gained popularity mainly through his solo albums and his works ...

, frontman of Bengali hard rock band

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Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal (born 2 May 1969) is a Bangladeshi guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is the lead guitarist and the founder of the heavy metal band Warfaze. He has been the band's guitarist and composer for three decades. In his early ...

, guitarist for Warfaze, one of the pioneers of Bengali and Bangladeshi heavy metal * Azam Khan (singer), Khan (Azam Khan), one of the pioneers of Bengali rock, pop guru and rock guru of Bangladesh, freedom fighter * Bappa Mazumder * Alamgir Haq, former member of the first Bengali Band Iolites, known as the Elvis Presley of the west * Syed Hasanur Rahman, vocalist of Ark (Bangladeshi band), Ark * Raef al Hasan Rafa * Kabir Suman * Sharmin Sultana Sumi, vocalist for Chirkutt * Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, vocalist for Aurthohin * Tanzir Tuhin, former vocalist of Shironamhin, current vocalist of Avash * Ziaur Rahman Zia

Bangladeshi film industry

* Abdul Alim, National Award-winning playback singer * Asif Akbar, National Award-winning playback singer * Momtaz Begum, National Award-winning playback singer * Kumar Biswajit, National Award-winning playback singer and composer * Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, freedom fighter and National Award-winning music director * Kanak Chapa, National Award-winning playback singer * Priyanka Gope, National Award-winning playback singer * Syed Abdul Hadi, National Award-winning playback singer * Abdul Jabbar, National Award-winning playback singer * Alam Khan (composer), Alam Khan, National Award-winning music director and composer * Monir Khan, National Award-winning playback singer * Andrew Kishore, National Award-winning playback singer * Runa Laila, National Award-winning playback singer and composer * Bappa Mazumder, Singer, National Award-winning composer * Mahmudun Nabi, National Award-winning playback singer * Subir Nandi, National Award-winning playback singer * Baby Nazneen, National Award-winning playback singer * Farida Parveen, National Award-winning playback singer *

, National Award-winning music director and composer * Shahnaz Rahmatullah, National Award-winning playback singer * Emon Saha, National Award-winning music director and composer * Satya Saha, National Award-winning music director * S I Tutul, National Award-winning playback singer and composer * Habib Wahid, National Award-winning music director * Sabina Yasmin, National Award-winning playback singer

Bollywood

Classical and folk musicians

* Abbas Uddin Ahmed (1901–1959) * Abdul Alim * Kanika Banerjee (1924–2000), Rabindrasangeet performer * Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986), sitar performer * Purna Das Baul (born 1933), known as 'Baul-samrat', pioneering folk artist known for working with Bob Dylan * Firoza Begum (singer), Firoza Begum (1930–2014), eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti * Momtaz Begum (born 1974), Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder * Dhananjay Bhattacharya (1922–1992), Shyama Sangeet singer * Pannalal Bhattacharya (c. 1930 – 1966), singer * Debabrata Biswas (1911–1980), Rabindrasangeet performer * Kumar Bose (born 1953), tabla performer and composer * Tanmoy Bose (born 1963), table master, composer, actor, fusion musician * Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla exponent * Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1952) * Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical musician, sarod player * Anjan Chattopadhyay, sitar player * Annapurna Devi (1927–2018), surbahar performer * Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music * Naina Devi (singer), Naina Devi (1917–1993), Indian classical singer * Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1909–1997), tabla master, composer and musician * Pannalal Ghosh (1911–1960), pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist * Shankar Ghosh (1935–2016), tabla master and singer * Shah Abdul Karim (1916–2009) * Ali Akbar Khan (1922–2009), sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, US * Allauddin Khan (1862–1972) * Shahadat Hossain Khan (born 1958), Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player * Vilayat Khan (1928–2004), sitar performer * Runa Laila (born 1952), folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer * Lalon (1784–1890), mystic devotional composer and singer * Abdul Latif * Suchitra Mitra (1924–2011), rabindrasangeet performer, also playback singer and composer * Kalyan Mukherjea (1943–2010) * Budhaditya Mukherjee * Kashinath Mukherjee (1925–2011), Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of Etawah Gharana * Manabendra Mukhopadhyay (1931–1992), singer and composer * Farida Parveen (born 1954), Lalon singer * Hason Raja (1854–1922) * Ritwik Sanyal (born 1953) * Indrani Sen, rabindrasangeet and nazrulgeeti performer, also modern and folk songs * Srabani Sen, rabindrasangeet performer, also modern and folk songs * Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), sitar player and composer *

(1920–2012), sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist * Chitra Singh, Hindi/Urdu ghazal singer and wife of Jagjit Singh * Ruma Guha Thakurta (1934–2019), founder and lead singer of Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer * Alka Yagnik (born 1966)

Hindi rock

* Asheem Chakravarty, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean (band), Indian Ocean * Palash Sen, lead vocalist of Indian band Euphoria * Susmit Sen, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean

Western

* Sameer Bhattacharya, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band Flyleaf (band), Flyleaf * Futurecop!, electronic band, members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom * Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar; Indian Bengali * Sanjaya Malakar, American born Indian origin singer * Shikhee, singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust * Mumzy Stranger * Monica Yunus, operatic soprano

Military

Bangladesh

* Shakil Ahmed (general), Shakil Ahmed, former head of Bangladesh Rifles * Mohammad Ruhul Amin, awarded Bir Sreshtho, the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of

* Saiful Azam, served under Bangladesh Air Force, Iraqi Air Force, Pakistan Air Force and Royal Jordanian Air Force * Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army * Ismail Faruque Chowdhury, engineer-in-chief of the Bangladesh Army * Saiful Islam Duke, former Lieutenant Commander of Bangladesh Navy * Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bangladeshi war hero and retired Major-General of the Bangladesh Army, key sector commander of the Mukti Bahini during the

* Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, Bangladesh Army officer and fugitive * Nurul Huq (Captain), Nurul Huq, second temporary chief of Bangladesh Navy * AB Tajul Islam, retired Bangladesh Army captain and former Ministry of Liberation War Affairs (Bangladesh), Minister of Liberation War Affairs * Mohiuddin Jahangir, awarded Bir Sreshtho, the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of

* Sina Ibn Jamali, former lieutenant general and Chief of General Staff in Army Headquarters * Mahbub Ali Khan, Bangladesh Navy rear admiral and the Chief of Naval Staff * Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, army officer convicted for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman * A. K. Khandker, Abdul Karim Khandker, Bir Uttam war hero * Anwarul Momen, general officer commanding 17th Infantry Division (Bangladesh), 17th Infantry Division * Khaled Mosharraf, Sector Commander, war hero of Bangladesh Independence War * Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim, 7th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army * General M. A. G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War * Mohammad Abdur Rab (Bir Uttam), Mohammad Abdur Rab, 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army, Major general during the

* Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman, physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war * AKM Asadul Haq, physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war * Hamidur Rahman, awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of

* Matiur Rahman (military pilot), Rahman, awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of

* Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam war hero, Sector Commander, strategic war hero Of 1971 Bangladesh Independence War * Munshi Abdur Rouf, awarded Bir Sreshtho, the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of

* Muhammad Ghulam Tawab, Bangladesh's second Chief of Air Staff (Bangladesh), Chief of Air Staff * Ashab Uddin (general), Ashab Uddin, major general and ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen * Sarwar Hossain, Army General and former Military Secretary to the President of Bangladesh.

India

* Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas (1924–1957), recipient of Ashoka Chakra (military decoration), Ashoka Chakra * Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), Leader, Indian National Army * Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, first woman to be promoted to three-star rank in the Indian Air Force * Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji (1934-2019), MVC, VM of Indian Air Force * Major General (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee (general), Founding Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies * Vice Admiral Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee, Indian Navy, Later Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command * Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji (1914–2001), Indian Navy Chief 1966–1970 * General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri (1908–1983), Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 * Commodore Ajitendu Chakraverti, Indian Navy, First Indian officer to be promoted to Commodore * Group Captain Suranjan Das, pioneering test pilot of Indian Air Force * Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, AVSM, YSM, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command * Lieutenant General (retd.) Abhijit Guha (Indian Army officer), Head of the UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement * Wing Commander Karun Krishna Majumdar, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) and first Indian to reach the rank of Wing Commander * S. K. Majumdar (IAF officer), Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot * Colonel Avijit Misra, an Indian Army Colonel * Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee (1911–1960), former Head of Indian Air Force * Arup Raha, Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, 24th chief of Indian Air Force * Dr. Wing Commander Ashis Roy, MD FRCS, first Indian man to complete 100 marathons * Indra Lal Roy (1898–1918), first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace * General Shankar Roychowdhury (born 1937), former Indian Army Chief * Lieutenant General Lionel Protip Sen, Distinguished Service Order

Other

* Abuhena Saifulislam, Abu Hena Saiful Islam (born 1963), Muslim chaplain for the US Navy * Kalapahad (died 1575), military general for the Karrani dynasty * Masum Khan (born 1604), Zamindar of Sarail and soldier of the Mughal empire * Hayat Mahmud, military general and Zamindar of Barisal District, Buzurg-Umedpur

Padma Vibhushan

* Milon K. Banerji * Nand Lal Bose * Satyendra Nath Bose * Suniti Kumar Chatterji * D. P. Chattopadhyaya * Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri * Bhabatosh Datta * Niren De * Basanti Devi *

* Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis * Ajoy Mukherjee * Benode Behari Mukherjee * Hirendranath Mukherjee * Hrishikesh Mukherjee *

* Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri * Radhabinod Pal *

* Uday Shankar

Politicians

Bangladesh

* Tajuddin Ahmad, first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971–1972) * Abdus Samad Azad, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh), Minister of Foreign Affairs * Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, popularly known with the honorary title Mazlum Jananeta (Leader of the Oppressed) * A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, Dr. A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, Former President of Bangladesh (2001–2002) and the founder of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh * Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, ''de facto'' President of Bangladesh, President and Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Prime Minister, former Adviser to Iajuddin Ahmed * Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990) and the founder of the Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya party * Kamal Hossain, lawyer, founder of Gano Forum and the leader of Jatiya Oikya Front, Jatiya Oikiya front alliance * A. K. Fazlul Huq, first Prime Minister of Bengal (Undivided), presented the Lahore Resolution with the official proposal of partition of India, Governor of East Pakistan * Serajul Huq (politician), Serajul Huq, one of the founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League * AK Abdul Momen, incumbent Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh), Minister of Foreign Affairs * Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897-1988), founder of the Emarat Party and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly * GM Quader, Ghulam Mahmood Quader, chairman of the Jatiya party * Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali nationalist politician, President of Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and second Prime Minister of Bangladesh, voted as the Greatest Bengali of all time in 2004 BBC's opinion poll * Tarique Rahman (born 1967), acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party * Ziaur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, President of Bangladesh (1977–1981), proposed the creation of SAARC, sector commander and liberation war hero * Zillur Rahman (1929-2013), former President of Bangladesh (2009-2013) * Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present) * Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006), "mother of democracy", leader of democracy movement in Bangladesh, first female PM of Bangladesh * Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900-1986), second president of the All Pakistan Awami Muslim League

British India

* Aftab Ali, founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of All-India Trade Union Congress *

, Indian independence activist * Mahmud Ali (statesman), Mahmud Ali, Indian independence movement, Freedom Movement leader, statesman * Abul Kalam Azad, senior leader of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement * Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the Indian National Army * Ajmal Ali Choudhury, prominent in the Sylhet referendum movement * Moinul Hoque Choudhury, five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA, two-time United Nations General Assembly, UN General Assembly representative and Minister of Industrial Development * Chittaranjan Das, prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu) * Abdul Halim Ghaznavi, politician, industrialist and minister * Abdul Karim Ghaznavi, politician, traveler and minister * Muhammad Hasanuzzaman, educationist and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly for Tippera North * Syed Shamsul Huda, Nawab of Gokarna, Bangladesh, Gokarna, president of the

* Hatem Ali Jamadar, member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly * Nawab Ali Haider Khan, 9th Nawab of Longla, Minister (government), minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party * Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter and politician * Nawab Abdul Latif, educator and social worker * Syed Abdul Majid Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, CIE, first native minister of Assam, pioneer of the agricultural industry * Abdul Matlib Mazumdar, Indian independence movement, freedom fighter and political leader known for retaining the Barak Valley in Dominion of India, India * Abdul Kader Mia, member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly * Sarojini Naidu, freedom fighter and poet * Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian nationalist, one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate * Wajed Ali Khan Panni, Zamindar of Karatia, politician and educationist * Khwaja Salimullah, founder of All-India Muslim League, Muslim League, proposed establishing University of Dhaka

India

West Bengal

* Muzaffar Ahmad, one of the founders of the Communist Party of India * Syed Badrudduja, former Mayor of Kolkata * Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman All India Trinamool Congress * Mrinal Banerjee, former Minister * Surendranath Banerjee, one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress * Jyoti Basu, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) * Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after 19th Party Congress * Suvendu Adhikari, current Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bharatiya Janata Party and four-term MLA from Nandigram, former cabinet minister and two term MP from Trinamool Congress * Tanmoy Bhattacharya, politician, elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA of Dum Dum Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), North Dum Dum constituency, 2016-2021 * Dilip Ghosh (politician), Dilip Ghosh, politician and MP from Bharatiya Janata Party, former MLA and state president of BJP. * Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, first president of Indian National Congress * Subhas Chandra Bose, former President of Indian National Congress, Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and co-foounder Indian National Army * Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister * A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, senior leader of Indian National Congress * Abu Ayesh Mondal, chairman of West Bengal Minority Development & Finance Corporation, former MLA of Monteswar Assembly constituency, Monteswar and former MP of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency), Katwa * Mehbub Mondal, former MLA of Galsi Assembly constituency, Galsi * Rafikul Islam Mondal, former MLA of Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency, North Basirhat * Rahima Mondal, former MLA of Deganga Assembly constituency, Deganga *

, former president of India, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of Indian National Congress * Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, later Bharatiya Janata Party * Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States *

, physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna *

, former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian

Assam

* Abdur Rahim Ahmed, MLA of Barpeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Barpeta * Hafiz Bashir Ahmed, MLA of Bilasipara West (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Bilasipara West * Jahan Uddin Ahmed, member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Jamal Uddin Ahmed (MLA), Jamal Uddin Ahmed, former MLA of Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency), Badarpur * Kobad Hussain Ahmed, inaugural MLA of Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Mankachar * Moinuddin Ahmed, former MLA of Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jaleswar * Sahab Uddin Ahmed, former MLA of Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jaleswar * Sherman Ali Ahmed, MLA of Baghbar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Baghbar * Siddique Ahmed, MLA of Karimganj South (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Karimganj South * Abdur Rahim Ajmal, politician in Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jamunamukh * Abdur Rahman Ajmal, politician in Salmara South (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Salmara *

, founder of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind's Assam branch * Sirajuddin Ajmal, MLA of Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jamunamukh and founder of Ajmal Foundation * Abul Kalam Rasheed Alam, MLA of Goalpara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Goalpara East * Sheikh Shah Alam, former MLA of Goalpara West (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Goalpara West * Amjad Ali (Assam politician), Amjad Ali, two-time member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Abul Kalam Azad (Indian politician), Abul Kalam Azad, former MLA of Bhabanipur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency), Bhabanipur * Abdul Aziz (Indian politician), Abdul Aziz, MLA of Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency), Badarpur * Hazi Salim Uddin Barbhuiya, Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA of Hailakandi * Karim Uddin Barbhuiya, MLA of Sonai (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Sonai * Gul Akhtara Begum, former MLA of Bilasipara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Bilasipara East * Abdul Munim Choudhury, former MLA of Karimganj South (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Karimganj South * Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury, former MLA of Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jamunamukh * Nizam Uddin Choudhury, former MLA of Algapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Algapur * Rashida Haque Choudhury, former Minister of State for Social Welfare * Wazed Ali Choudhury, MLA of Salmara South (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Salmara South * Santosh Mohan Dev, former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the Lok Sabha, senior leader of Indian National Congress * Abdul Hamid (Dhubri politician), Abdul Hamid, member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Ali Hossain (politician), Ali Hossain, former MLA of Sarukhetri (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Sarukhetri * Rasul Hoque, former MLA of Dhubri (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Najrul Hoque, MLA of Dhubri (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Samsul Huda, MLA of Bilasipara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Bilasipara East * Ahmed Hussain (Assam politician), Ahmed Hussain, member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Anwar Hussain (politician), Anwar Hussain, member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Ashraful Hussain, MLA of Chenga (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Chenga * Ismail Hussain, former MLA of Barpeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Barpeta * Monowar Hussain, former MLA of Goalpara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Goalpara East * Aminul Islam (Indian politician, born 1975), Adv. Aminul Islam, general secretary and chief spokesperson for All India United Democratic Front, AIUDF * Aminul Islam (Indian politician, born 1971), Aminul Islam, former MLA of Dhing (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Dhing * Aminul Islam (Assam politician), Aminul Islam, former MLA of Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Mankachar * Hosenara Islam, first female MLA of Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Mankachar * Nurul Islam (Assam politician), Nurul Islam, member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency), Dhubri * Rafiqul Islam (Indian politician), Rafiqul Islam, MLA of Jania (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jania * Zabed Islam, former MLA of Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Mankachar * Zahirul Islam (politician), Zahirul Islam, second MLA of Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Mankachar * Abdul Khaleque (Assamese politician), Abdul Khaleque, former MLA of Jania (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jania * Abdur Rahim Khan (politician), Abdur Rahim Khan, former MLA of Barpeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Barpeta * Aziz Ahmed Khan (politician), Aziz Ahmed Khan, former MLA of Karimganj South (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Karimganj South * Liakat Ali Khan, former MLA of Chenga (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Chenga * Abdul Batin Khandakar, MLA of Abhayapuri North (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Abhayapuri North * Aminul Haque Laskar, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP politician of Sonai (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Sonai * Anwar Hussain Laskar, former MLA of Hailakandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Hailakandi * Misbahul Islam Laskar, MLA of Barkhola (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Barkhola * Suzam Uddin Laskar, All India United Democratic Front, AIUDF politician * Zakir Hussain Laskar, MLA of Hailakandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Hailakandi * Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya, All India United Democratic Front, AIUDF politician and leader of ''Nadwatut Tameer'' * Abdur Rashid Mandal, MLA of Goalpara West (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Goalpara West * Abdul Muhib Mazumder, one of the architects of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983 * Khalil Uddin Mazumder, MLA of Katigorah (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Katigorah * Aftabuddin, Aftabuddin Mollah, MLA of Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jaleswar * Motiur Rohman Mondal, former MLA of Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Mankachar * Abu Saleh Najmuddin, former MLA of Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency), Badarpur * A. F. Golam Osmani, Indian National Congress member * Kabindra Purkayastha, former Minister * Afzalur Rahman, inaugural MLA of Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jaleswar * Nijanur Rahman, MLA of Gauripur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Gauripur * Abdur Rouf (Indian politician), Abdur Rouf, former MLA of Jania (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jania * Abdus Sobahan Ali Sarkar, MLA of Golakganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Golakganj * Jakir Hussain Sikdar, Zakir Hussain Sikdar, MLA of Sarukhetri (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Sarukhetri * Jahan Uddin (politician), Jahan Uddin, former MLA of Dhubri (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Dhubri

Bihar

*Dulal Chandra Goswami is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Katihar (Lok Sabha constituency), Katihar in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Janata Dal (United). *Ajit Sarkar represented Purnia four times in the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPIM between 1980 and 1998 for 18 years until 14 June 1998 when he was gunned down with his driver Harendra Sharma and party worker Ashfaqur Rehman in broad daylight at Subhash Nagar in Purnia. *Madhavi Sarkar represented Purnia Bihar Legislative Assembly from Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPIM between 1998 and 2000

Meghalaya

* Akramozzaman, inaugural MLA of Phulbari Assembly constituency, Phulbari * Shamsul Hoque, inaugural MLA of Mahendraganj Assembly constituency, Mahendraganj * Khorsedur Rahman Khan, former MLA of Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Rajabala * S. G. Esmatur Mominin, current MLA of Phulbari Assembly constituency, Phulbari * Abu Taher Mondal, former three-time MLA of Phulbari Assembly constituency, Phulbari * Mozibur Rahman, inaugural MLA of Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Rajabala * Abdus Saleh, MLA of Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Rajabala and former two-time MLA of Mahendraganj Assembly constituency, Mahendraganj * Manirul Islam Sarkar, former two-time MLA of Phulbari Assembly constituency, Phulbari and Minister of Agriculture & Transport * Azad Zaman, former MLA of Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Rajabala

Other

*S. M. Banerjee 4-time Member of Parliament (India), M.P. of Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency), Kanpur as an Independent politician, Independent candidate with support of Communist Party of India, CPI from 1962 to 1977. *Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari 7-time Member of Legislative Assembly, M.L.A of Varanasi South (Assembly constituency), South Varanasi from Bharatiya Janata Party * Rabi Ray, speaker of Lok Sabha * Manik Sarkar, chief minister of Tripura, Politburo member * Ashab Uddin, member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly for Jiribam (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jiribam

Pakistan

* Nurul Amin, Prime Minister of Pakistan * Abdullah al-Baqi (1886-1952), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan * Mohammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953–1955 * Abdul Matin Chaudhary, served as the first Agriculture Minister of Pakistan * Minister Abdul Hamid, Abdul Hamid, first Education Minister of East Bengal * Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz, Muslim League politician and lawyer * Abdul Wahab Khan (politician), Abdul Wahab Khan, 3rd Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan * Abdullah al Mahmood (d. 1975), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan * Jogendra Nath Mandal, served as the first Law & Labour Minister of Pakistan * Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan * Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Bengal (Undivided), 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan, 2nd Governor-General of Pakistan, President of Muslim League * Khurram Khan Panni, former Chief Whip of East Pakistan Provincial Assembly * Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, second Chief Minister of Bengal, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)

United Kingdom

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*Lisa Nandy Indian(Bengali)-British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities since 2021. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan (UK Parliament constituency), Wigan since 2010. Anwar choudhury

* Nasim Ali Officer of the British Empire, OBE, Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden London Borough Council, Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden; in 2003, at age 34, became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor * Farida Anwar, Labour Party politician, councillor for Headington Hill and Northway in Oxford City Council; in 2014, became Oxfordshire's first city councillor from a Bangladeshi background *Anwar Choudhury, former Governor of the Cayman Islands and List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Bangladesh, High Commissioner of the UK to Bangladesh * Rabina Khan, Liberal Democrat councillor for Shadwell ward, former Cabinet Member for Housing in Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, community worker and author of ''Ayesha's Rainbow'' * Syeda Khatun

, Labour Party politician, councillor for Tipton Green in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Cabinet Advisor for Education; in 1999, the first Bangladeshi woman to be elected in the Midlands * Murad Qureshi, Labour Party politician and former Greater London Assembly member * Lutfur Rahman (British politician), Lutfur Rahman, community activist and Independent (politician), Independent politician; from 2010 to 2015 the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council * Luthfur Rahman , current deputy leader of Manchester City Council * Nadia Shah, Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park (ward), Regent's Park ward and former Mayor of Camden; in May 2016, became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin * Baroness Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, "Pola" Manzila Uddin, Labour Party life peer, community activist, and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the House of Lords * Apsana Begum Member of Parliament, MP, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency), Poplar and Limehouse, first Hijabi to be elected as an Member of Parliament, MP for the British parliament * Rupa Huq Member of Parliament, MP, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency), Ealing Central and Acton constituency, writer, columnist, senior lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University and former Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing * Rushanara Ali Member of Parliament, MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency), Bethnal Green and Bow constituency; first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a Member of Parliament * Tulip Siddiq Member of Parliament, MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn (UK Parliament constituency), Hampstead and Kilburn, former councillor for Regent's Park (ward), Regent's Park ward and Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities in Camden London Borough Council; in 2010, became the first Bengali female councillor in Camden Council

Canada

* Doly Begum, Bangladeshi-Canadian politician of Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic party & Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), MPP from Scarborough Southwest (provincial electoral district), Scarborough Southwest

United States of America

* Raj Mukherji – Majority Whip and Democratic member of the New Jersey General Assembly from New Jersey's 33rd Legislative District (New Jersey), 33rd Legislative District covering portions of Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County (second Indian American elected to NJ state legislature); former Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ; former Commissioner and Chairman of the Jersey City Housing Authority (then the youngest to serve in that position); Reservist (2001–09) in United States Marine Corps * Hansen Clarke, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 13th district, Democrat, Member of the Michigan Senate from the 1st district, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 7th and 16th district

Other

* I'tisam-ud-Din, Mughal diplomat and munshi

Ramon Magsaysay Award

* Tahrunessa Abdullah * Fazle Hasan Abed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG, founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, BRAC (NGO), BRAC * Amitabha Chowdhury * Zafrullah Chowdhury * Mahasweta Devi * Gour Kishore Ghosh * Angela Gomes * Syeda Rizwana Hasan, attorney, Heroes of the Environment (2009), Hero of the Environment and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize * A.H.M. Noman Khan * Sombhu Mitra * Matiur Rahman *

* Abdullah Abu Sayeed *

* Muhammad Yunus

Religion and spirituality

Brahmoism

* Charulata Mukherjee, women's rights activist and social worker from Calcutta, associated with Brahmo Samaj and All India Women's Conference * Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj * Keshub Chandra Sen * Debendranath Tagore, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism, the youngest religion of India

Buddhism

* Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein (writer), Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das * Atisha, Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana (982–1054), or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara, Buddhist scholar, missionary and teacher, inventor of bodhichitta * Tibbetibaba (died 1930), philosopher saint * Tilopa (988–1069), Buddhist teacher, important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Kagyu lineage and progressor of Mahamudra method

Hinduism

* Swami Abhedananda (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math * Advaita Acharya, Vaishnava guru * Sri Aurobindo, yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary * Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse * Mahavatar Babaji, yogi and tantrik master * Bamakhepa (Bamacharan Chattopadhyay), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith * Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (West Bengal), Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, Tantrik/ Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs * Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual master * Swami Satyananda Giri, Manamohan Mazumder monk, preacher and yogi * Yukteswar Giri, Priyanath Karar, yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer * Nolini Kanta Gupta, revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books * Gopinath Kaviraj, yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author * Anandamoyi Ma, mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru * Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer * Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder Bharat Sevashram Sangha * Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yogay * Nirmalananda, 19th century monk * Nityananda, great avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal * Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar * Nigamananda Paramahansa, Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions * A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of ISKCON * Pranavananda, founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangha * Rani Rashmoni, founder of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Kolkata * Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of Gaudiya Math * Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar or Sri Anandamurti, polymathic personality, author, philosopher, socio-political thinker, educationist, revolutionary, poet, composer, linguist, self-development and human welfare theorist, the founder of Ananda Marga (a socio-spiritual movement) * Ramprasad Sen, tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of mystic, devotional songs to Goddess Kali * Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Vaishnava missionary and theologian * Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission * Paramahansa Yogananda, monk, philosopher, preacher, author and exponent of Kriya Yoga school, Kriya Yoga

Islam

* Mearajuddin Ahmad (c. 1890), author of Tufat al-Muslimin * Dudu Miyan, Muhsinuddin Ahmad (1819–1862), second leader of the Faraizi movement * Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873–1952), inaugural Pir of Sarsina and founder of Darussunnat Kamil Madrasa * Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416), Islamic scholar involved in the Bengal-Jaunpur confrontation and pioneer of the Dobhashi tradition * Ayub Ali, Muhammad Ayyub Ali (1919–1995), former principal of Government Madrasah-e-Alia, Madrasah-e-Alia Dhaka and Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah, Sylhet Alia Madrasa * Ruhul Amin (mufti), Ruhul Amin (b. 1962), ''khatib'' of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque * Fazlul Haque Amini (1945–2012), former principal of Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh and politician * Harun Babunagari (1902–1986), founding principal of Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar * Junaid Babunagari (1955-2021), former Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam * Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935), current Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam * Muhammad Abdul Bari (academic), Muhammad Abdul Bari (1930–2003), former vice-chancellor of the University of Rajshahi * Abdullah el Baqui, Muhammad Abdullahil Baqi (1886–1952), Islamic scholar, writer and politician * Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907-1971), scholar and member of 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan * Ali Sher Bengali (fl. 1570s), Sufi saint of the Shattari order * Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850-1905), co-founder of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam * Athar Ali Bengali (1891–1976), former president of Nizam-e-Islam Party * Muhammad Salih Bengali (fl. 1700s), leading scholar in the fields of fiqh, hikmah, kalam and logic * Shah Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author * Usman Bengali (died 1570s), Muslim scholar based in Sambhal * Yusuf Bengali (fl. 1570s), Sufi pir (Sufism), pir of the Shattari order * Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880–1976), founder of the Awami League, Awami Muslim League and The Daily Ittefaq * Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (1933–2013), former principal Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh, Dhaka, Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh and former professor at the University of Dhaka * Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928–2005), former president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh * Abdul Halim Bukhari (born 1945), Islamic scholar and chancellor of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya * Fakhr ad-Din al-Burdwani (d. 1785), Islamic scholar of logic and ''hikmah'' * Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani, 18th-century mufti and poet * Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920–2015), founder of Islamic Research Center Bangladesh * Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943–2021), former Grand Mufti in both

and

* Ibrahim Chatuli (1894-1984), Education Minister of Assam and former Member of Parliament in Pakistan and Bangladesh * Moulana Abdul Jalil Choudhury, Abdul Jalil Choudhury (1925-1989), Islamic scholar and former MLA of Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency), Badarpur and Algapur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency), Algapur * Abdul Matin Chowdhury (scholar), Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1915–1990), Shaykh of Fulbari and political activist * Farid Uddin Chowdhury (born 1947), principal of Shahjalal Jamia School * Najib Ali Choudhury (c. 1870), founder of the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari in South Assam * Izharul Islam Chowdhury, founder of Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Lalkhan Bazar * Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury, vice-president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam * Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959), founder of Sariat-i-Islam newspaper * Khwaja Yunus Ali, Khwaja Yunus Ali Enayetpuri (1886–1951), founder of the Enayetpuri Sufi Darbar * Muhammad Faizullah (1892–1976), former teacher at Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam * Abdul Haque Faridi (1903–1996), founder of the Islami Bishwakosh project * Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896–1969), founder of the Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh * Nurul Islam Farooqi (died 2014), TV presenter assassinated by Islamic militants * Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008), founder of the Fultali movement and Darul Hadis Latifiah * Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), reformist and founder of Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh * Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924–2005), chairman of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh * Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938–2020), former vice-president of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam * Abdul Malek Halim, founder of Al-Jamiatul Arabia Haildhar Madrasa * Obaidullah Hamzah (born 1972), current principal of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya * Alaul Haq (1301-1398), Islamic scholar entrusted with the Bengal Sultanate treasury * Ubaidul Haq (1928–2007), former khatib of Baitul Mukarram * Azizul Haq (1903–1961), founder of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya * Azizul Haque (scholar), Azizul Haque (1919–2012), first translator of Sahih Al-Bukhari into the Bengali language * Mahfuzul Haque (born 1969), Islamic scholar and politician * Mamunul Haque (born 1973), Islamic scholar and influential speaker * Mahmudul Hasan (scholar), Mahmudul Hasan (born 1950), president of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh and Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh, chancellor of , Amir of Majlis-e-Dawatul Haq Bangladesh. * Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882–1967), founder of Jiri Madrasa * A F M Khalid Hossain (born 1959), vice-president of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh * Sayed Moazzem Hossain (1901–1991), former vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka * Zohurul Hoque (1926–2017), translator of the Qur'an * Hafezzi Huzur (1895–1997), founder of the Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan * Abdul Momin Imambari (1930–2020), former president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh * Shahidul Islam (Mufti), Shahidul Islam (born 1960), founder of al-Markaz al-Islami * Maniruzzaman Islamabadi (1875–1950), journalist and founder of the Anjuman-i-Ulama-i-Bangala * Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937–2016), former secretary-general of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh * Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir (1961–2016), professor at Islamic University, Bangladesh * Abul Hasan Jashori (1918–1993), freedom fighter and founding principal of Jamia Ejazia Darul Uloom Jessore * Nurul Islam Jihadi (born 1948), secretary-general of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam * Syed Faizul Karim (born 1973), senior vice-president of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Islami Andolan * Syed Fazlul Karim (1935–2006), former Pir of Chormonai and founder of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Islami Andolan * Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1971), current Pir of Chormonai and leader of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Islami Andolan * Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945–2020), former secretary-general of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam * Deen Muhammad Khan (1900–1974), co-founder of Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh * Mohammad Akram Khan (1868–1969), founder of The Azad * Muhiuddin Khan (1935–2016), translator of the Qur'an and the Ma'ariful Qur'an exegesis * Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869–1920), co-founder of Darul Uloom Hathazari * Gulamur Rahman, Ghulamur Rahman Maizbhandari (1865–1937), 2nd Pir of Maizbhandari * Syed Ahmad Ullah, Syed Ahmadullah Maizbhandari (1826–1906), founder of the Maizbhandari Darbar * Muhammad Abdul Malek (born 1969), muhaddith and author * Maqsudullah (1883–1961), Deobandi scholar and Pir of Talgachhia Darbar Sharif * Ajmal Masroor (born 1971), British politician, imam and TV presenter * Abu Taher Misbah (born 1956), academic, author and founder of Madani Nesab * Sheikh Abdur Rahim, Abdur Rahim Muhammadpuri (1859–1931), Islamic writer * Munshi Mohammad Meherullah, Mohammad Meherullah (1861–1907), comparative religionist writer * Abdul Khaleque Mondal (born 1944), Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamaat-e-Islami politician and principal of Agardari Madrasa * Mawlana Murad, lived in Mecca in the 1700s * Sultan Zauq Nadvi (born 1939), founder of Jamia Darul Ma'arif Al-Islamia * Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (1914–1997), founding principal of Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur * Saifur Rahman Nizami (born 1916), Ekushey Padak recipient * Nurul Islam Olipuri, Nurul Islam Walipuri (born 1955), mufassir, teacher and author * Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897-1988), founder of the Emarat Party and two-time member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly * Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935-1996), former secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam * Abdul Qayum (imam), Abdul Qayum (born 1960), Chief Imam of the East London Mosque * Habibullah Qurayshi (1865-1934), co-founder of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam * Abdur Rahim (scholar), Abdur Rahim (1918–1987), first leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami * Sajidur Rahman (b. 1964), vice-president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh * Oliur Rahman, Shah Waliur Rahman (1916—2006), Islamic scholar and female education activist * Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915–1990), Independence Award recipient *

(1885–1969), essayist and editor of the Islami Bishwakosh * Haji Shariatullah (1781–1840), founder of the Faraizi movement * Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1865–1943), inaugural Pir of Furfura Sharif * Usman Serajuddin, Uthman Sirajuddin (1258–1357), Court Scholar of Bengal under the Ilyas Shahis * Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (born 1940), Islamic scholar and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamaat-e-Islami politician * Shah Ahmad Shafi (1916–2020), former Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam * Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872–1931), Islamic scholar, poet and activist * Zia Uddin (born 1941), president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh * Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943), Qur'an reciter and founder of Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia * Muhammad Wakkas (1952–2021), former secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam * Obaidul Haque, Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934–2008), former co-president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh * AKM Yusuf, Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf (1926–2014), former chairman of Darul-Arabia wa Darul-Ifta Bangladesh * Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree (born 1945), founder of the Bangladesh Islami University * Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (born 1969), professor at Islamic University, Bangladesh * Shaikh Jamiruddin, Shaikh Zamiruddin (1870–1937), writer and revert to Islam

Christianity

* Kali Charan Banerjee, lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the Indian National Congress * Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association * Puroshottam Choudhary, preacher, evangelist, writer of Christian literature * Lal Behari Dey, Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary * Patrick D'Rozario, first Bangladeshi Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal, Archbishop of Dhaka * Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian Anglican Diocese of Calcutta, Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan bishop, Metropolitan of India * Krishna Pal, Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under William Carey (missionary), William Carey

Other

* Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries

* Ali Muhammad Shibli (b. 1879) * Alimuddin Ahmad (1884-1920) * Revolt of Rajab Ali, Rajab Ali Khan * Sri Aurobindo * Surendranath Banerjee * Abul Barkat * Benoy Basu * Basanta Kumar Biswas * Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee * Khudiram Bose * Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose * Rash Behari Bose * Sarat Chandra Bose * Prafulla Chaki * Ambika Chakrobarty * Panchanan Chakraborty * Amarendranath Chatterjee * Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay * Virendranath Chattopadhyaya * Bina Das * Chittaranjan Das * Jatindra Nath Das * Bhupendra Kumar Datta * Batukeshwar Dutt * Bipin Behari Ganguli * Dwarkanath Ganguly * Barindra Kumar Ghosh * Dinesh Gupta * Badal Gupta * Matangini Hazra * Kazi Nazrul Islam * Bagha Jatin * Hemchandra Kanungo * Syama Prasad Mookerjee * Jatindranath Mukherjee * Saroj Mukherjee * Sarojini Naidu * Bipin Chandra Pal * Sudhamoy Pramanick * Renuka Ray * B. C. Roy * Birendranath Sasmal * Narendra Mohan Sen * Surya Sen * Triguna Sen * Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy * Titumir * Pritilata Waddedar

Science and technology

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Physicists

* Ahsan Ali (physician), Ahsan Ali, doctor, physician and researcher * Kedareswar Banerjee, first crystallographer of India, known for X-ray Crystallography and was director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. The K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies was established in his honour * Srikumar Banerjee, director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, BARC and Atomic Energy Commission of India, AECI * Mani Lal Bhaumik, physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the University of California * Debendra Mohan Bose, physicist, made contributions in the field of cosmic rays, artificial radioactivity and neutron physics * Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany * Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce Bose–Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); the Boson, an elementary particle named after him * Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the Super Proton Synchrotron, Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley, California, Berkeley * Swapan K. Gayen, Swapan Kumar Gain, Bengali-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the

* Amitabha Ghosh (planetary geologist), Amitabha Ghosh, only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission * Dipan Ghosh, theoretical physicist, known for Majumdar–Ghosh model * Hiranmay Sen Gupta, physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals * M. Zahid Hasan, physicist, Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics at Princeton University and scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for discoveries in quantum matter and topology *

, known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition * Ashesh Prasad Mitra, performed major work in the field of the Earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques * Sisir Kumar Mitra, physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the Mitra (crater), Mitra crater on the Moon is named after him * Bedabrata Pain, co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award-winning filmmaker * Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including Raychaudhuri's equation * Somak Raychaudhury, astrophysicist and observational cosmologist, Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics * Subrata Roy (scientist), Subrata Roy, known for his contributions in the modelling of plasma physics and the invention of the Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle and serpentine geometry plasma actuator * Meghnad Saha, physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or Saha Equation * Ashoke Sen, physicist, known for his contributions to string theory, co-discovered S-duality * Bikash Sinha, former director of SINP and Padmabhusan awardee

Biologists

* Maqsudul Alam, scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus * Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis * Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center * Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE * Maharani Chakravorty, organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981 * Abed Chaudhury, Bangladeshi-Australian geneticist and science writer * Biraja Sankar Guha, first director of Anthropological Survey of India * Jahangir Alam Khan, agricultural economist and researcher * Dilip Mahalanabis, biologist, under his leadership the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Bangladesh medical centre), discovered oral rehydration therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhea * Swadhin Kumar Mandal, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award winner * Panchanan Mitra, first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at Yale University * Mohammad Hossain Mondol, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute * Sarat Chandra Roy, widely regarded as the ''father of Indian ethnography'', the ''first Indian ethnographer'', and as the ''first Indian anthropologist'' * Ram Brahma Sanyal, pioneer in captive breeding; one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist; a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London * Dwijen Sharma, naturalist and science writer

Geologists

* Pramatha Nath Bose, one of the early Indians to join Geological Survey of India * Nibir Mandal, known for studies on the evolution of geological structures, Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award winner * Sudipta Sengupta, Indian geologist and one of the first Indian Women to set foot on Antarctica * M. A. Zaher, director-general of the Geological Survey of Bangladesh

Chemists

* Sadhan Basu, Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient * Asima Chatterjee, known for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine; her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs * Jnan Chandra Ghosh, chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes * Abul Hussam, chemist, inventor of Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability * Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles * Nurul Haque Miah, chemist, former professor at Dhaka College, textbook author * Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science * Prafulla Chandra Roy, pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company

Doctors and physicians

* Shamsuddin Ahmed (surgeon), Shamsuddin Ahmed, medical doctor martyred in the

* Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital#Dr. R. Ahmed (1890–1965), Rafiuddin Ahmed, dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became Indian Dental Association *Syed Modasser Ali, ophthalmic surgeon and a health advisor to Sheikh Hasina, founder of Mojibunnessa Eye Hospital and editor-in-chief of the Bangladesh Ophthalmic Journal. * Upendranath Brahmachari, synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, Surjo Kumar Chakraborty, India's first graduate in medicine * Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine * Jogesh Chandra Ghosh, pioneer of modern Ayurvedic medicine * Sake Dean Mahomed, surgeon and entrepreneur * Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, author of ''The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2011 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician), Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician, first physician in India and second in the world to perform in vitro fertilization * Shuvo Roy, scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney * Mahendralal Sarkar, homeopath and founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science * Hassan Suhrawardy, second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Mathematicians

* Debabrata Basu, mathematician, found Basu's theorem * Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, known for Bhattacharya coefficient, and the Bhattacharya distance * Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician, known for Association scheme, Bose–Mesner algebra, Leonhard Euler, Euler's conjecture * Sourav Chatterjee, mathematician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Professor at Stanford *

, mathematician and statistician from

* Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, mathematician, known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and Ghosh-Pratt identity * Anadi Sankar Gupta, specialised in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, notably on heat transfer in free convection flow in the presence of magnetic field * Qazi Azizul Haque, pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting * Khandkar Manwar Hossain, Bangladeshi statistician * Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder Indian Statistical Institute, best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure * Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer) in ISI in 1953 * Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya, introduced the four-vertex theorem and Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in plane geometry * ANM Muniruzzaman, Bangladeshi statistician killed in

* Ritabrata Munshi, mathematician specialising in number theory. Graduate student of Andrew Wiles. * Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, professor emeritus at Ohio State University. Known for BCH code * Samarendra Nath Roy, mathematician, known for multivariate analysis * Sucharit Sarkar, Indian topologist and IMO gold medallist * Radhanath Sikdar, mathematician, calculated the height of Mount Everest

Technologists

* Shubham Banerjee, inventor of Braigo; at 12 years old (2014) became the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture capital funding * Shuman Ghosemajumder, co-founder of TeachAids, former click fraud czar at Google * Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, early employee of PayPal * Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer)

Architects, archaeologists and engineers

* Jalal Ahmad (born 1959), president of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh, vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Architects * Sultanuddin Ahmed, engineer martyred during the

* Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693–1751), the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur, Rajasthan; with Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, he is credited as the architect of City Palace, Jaipur * Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929–1982), structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center * Saiman Miah (born 1986), architectural and graphic designer, designed one of the two £5 commemorative coins for the 2012 Summer Olympics. * M Harunur Rashid (archaeologist), M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist and museum curator * Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria, archaeologist

Social reformers and position holders

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed receives Thomas Francis, Jr

* Fazle Hasan Abed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG, founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, BRAC (NGO), BRAC *

, law reformer * Rawshan Ara Bachchu, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement * Kalyan Banerjee, former president of

* Syeda Shahar Banu, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement * The Honourable Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor Muhammad Abdul Bari

Deputy Lieutenant, DL List of Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts, FRSA Esquire, Esq., former secretary of Muslim Aid, former secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, former president of the Islamic Forum of Europe and former chairman of the East London Mosque * Khuda Buksh, pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh * Malati Choudhury, Indian civil rights activist, freedom activist and Gandhian * Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, director of Muslim spiritual care provision at the National Health Service, founder of the Islamic Forum of Europe and former chairman of Muslim Aid * Zobeda Khanom Chowdhury, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement *

, founder of Vidyasagar University and President of the Indian Science Congress * Azizul Haque (educator), Sir Azizul Haque, lawyer, writer, educator and public servant * Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, prolific writer, important women's rights activist and social worker, early feminist science fiction writer * Nasreen Pervin Huq, women's rights activist * Sayeed Iskander, founding chairman of Islamic TV and former army major of Bangladesh * Irene Khan, former Secretary General of

, first woman, first Asian, and first Muslim to hold the position * Osman Ghani Khan, former chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors, first Bangladeshi to hold a UN post. * Taiyaba Majumder, recipient of the Begum Rokeya Padak for contributions to women's rights and economic development * Muhammad Mohsin, philanthropist and founder of Hooghly Mohsin College * Mohua Mukherjee, social activist and author * Audri Mukhopadhyay, diplomat and economist * Renuka Ray, freedom fighter and social activist * Bunker Roy, social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College, selected as one of Time's 100 most influential personalities in 2010 * Manabendra Nath Roy, pioneer Indian Bengali revolutionary philosopher, founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Indian Communist Party * Harichand Thakur, founder of Matua Mahasangha *

, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization * Keshub Chunder Sen, intellectual, religious reformer *

, educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist * Romola Sinha, women's rights and social activist, founder member of All Bengal Women's Union * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and women's rights activist

Sports

Administrators

* Sourav Ganguly, President of

and former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee

Athletics

* Mohamed Mahbub Alam, South Asian Games gold medalist sprinter * Swapna Barman, heptathlon athlete * Soma Biswas, heptathlon athlete * Shanta Ghosh, retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters * Mohan Khan, Olympic sprinter * Beauty Nazmun Nahar, Olympic sprinter from Bangladesh * Hari Shankar Roy, Indian track and field athlete * Saraswati Saha, Indian former track and field sprinter * Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award

Archery

* Dola Banerjee, Indian female archer * Rahul Banerjee (archer), Rahul Banerjee, Indian archer * Krishna Das (archer), Krishna Das, former Indian archer * Ruman Shana, Bangladeshi archer, won gold in SA games 2019 * Jayanta Talukdar, archer

Badminton

* Dipu Ghosh, former badminton player * Raman Ghosh, former badminton player * Manoj Sarkar, para badminton player and Bronze Medalist at the 2020 Paralympic Games, Tokyo

Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling

* Manohar Aich, bodybuilder * Tameer Anwar, bodybuilder, Mister Bangladesh * Laxman Das, wrestler and weight lifter * Sukhen Dey (weightlifter), Sukhen Dey, weightlifter * Ambika Charan Guha, Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal * Gobar Guha, Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani * Bulbul Hussain, wheelchair rugby player for Kent Crusaders and the Great Britain at the Paralympics, Great Britain Paralympic team * Ali Jacko, Abdul Ali Jacko, two-time world lightweight kick-boxing champion * Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer * Reba Rakshit, Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga * Monotosh Roy, Indian bodybuilder, first Asian to be awarded the Mr. Universe title * Paresh Lal Roy, known as the "father of Indian boxing" * Asit Kumar Saha, wrestler and wrestling coach * Sudhir Saha, wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India, introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India

Chess

* Dibyendu Barua, Indian chess grandmaster * Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Indian grandmaster * Rani Hamid, awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985 * Enamul Hossain, Bangladeshi grandmaster * Niaz Morshed, chess player from Bangladesh, first chess grandmaster (chess), grandmaster to emerge from South Asia * Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi grandmaster * Abdullah Al Rakib, Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib, Bangladeshi grandmaster

Cricket

* Aftab Ahmed (cricketer, born 1985), Aftab Ahmed, former Bangladeshi cricketer * Nasum Ahmed, bowler for Bangladesh national cricket team, Bangladesh * Taskin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bowler * Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket * Tapash Baishya, Bangladeshi cricketer * Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer * Gargi Banerji, former Indian Women cricketer, holds international records * Habibul Bashar, former Bangladeshi cricketer * Gopal Bose, former Indian ODI player * Ranadeb Bose, Indian cricketer * Utpal Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer * Nirode Chowdhury, former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler * Liton Das, Bangladeshi cricketer * Deep Dasgupta, former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper * Rumeli Dhar, cricketer, Indian women's cricket team * Ashok Dinda, Indian cricket team player * Nikhil Dutta, Canadian cricketer * Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee * Dhiman Ghosh, Bangladeshi cricketer * Pinak Ghosh, Bangladeshi cricketer * Jhulan Goswami, Indian woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007 * Isa Guha, English women's team cricketer * Subrata Guha, former Indian Test cricketer * Mominul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer, has the highest test batting average and century by a Bangladeshi batsman * Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer * Shuvagata Hom, Bangladeshi cricketer * Rubel Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer * Shahadat Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer * Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer * Taijul Islam, Bangladeshi bowler * Mustafa Kamal (politician), Mustafa Kamal, former president of Bangladesh Cricket Board * Alok Kapali, former Bangladeshi cricketer * Kamal Mondal, Kamal Hasan Mondal, Indian cricketer * Lata Mondal, Bangladeshi woman cricketer * Ripon Mondol, Bangladeshi cricketer * Saradindu Mukherjee, former Indian cricketer * Mithu Mukherjee (cricketer), Mithu Mukherjee, former Indian women's cricket team player * Nazmul Hassan Papon, president of Bangladesh Cricket Board * Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer * Arafat Rahman, former Chairman of the Development Committee of Bangladesh Cricket Board * Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer * Pankaj Roy, former Indian cricket captain, known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs against New Zealand * Pranab Roy, former Test cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989) * Priyanka Roy, former cricketer of Indian women's cricket team * Subashis Roy, Bangladeshi cricketer * Wriddhiman Saha, Indian cricket player * Soumya Sarkar, Bangladeshi cricketer * Probir Sen, former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper * Rony Talukdar, Bangladeshi cricketer

Football

* Alfaz Ahmed, former footballer for Bangladesh national football team, Bangladesh * Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA * Prasun Banerjee, former Indian national football player, Arjuna award winner * Samar Banerjee, Indian footballer, Captain of Indian team in 1956 Olympic * Sibdas Bhaduri, captained Mohun Bagan in the historic 1911 IFA Shield, IFA Shield Final, where they defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment, 2-1 * Arindam Bhattacharya (footballer), Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian national football player * Karuna Bhattacharya, Indian footballer, member of 1938 Australia touring side * Lal Kamal Bhowmik, Indian footballer * Subhash Bhowmick, former Indian international football player * Subhasish Bose, Indian national football player * Ashok Chatterjee, Indian footballer * Sudip Chatterjee (footballer), Sudip Chatterjee, footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994 * Hamza Choudhury, midfielder for English football club Leicester City F.C. * Yeamin Ahmed Chowdhury Munna, Yeamin Chowdhury, footballer for Chittagong Abahani * Narayan Das (footballer), Narayan Das, Indian national football player * Krishanu Dey, footballer, known as the "Indian Maradona" * Robin Dutt, former manager of Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, current representative for sport of VfB Stuttgart * Chuni Goswami, former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded the best striker of Asia in 1962 * Pronay Halder, Indian national football player * Kaiser Hamid, former footballer for Mohammedan Sporting Club (Bangladesh), Mohammedan S.C. * Mehtab Hossain, former Indian national football player * Pritam Kotal, Indian national football player * Sailen Manna, footballer, the only Asian footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953 * Arnab Mondal, Indian national football player * Deepak Kumar Mondal, footballer and Arjuna award winner * Habibur Rehman Mondal, Indian professional footballer * Jafar Mondal, goalkeeper for Churchill Brothers FC Goa, Churchill Brothers FC * Monirul Mondal, striker for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata), Mohammedan SC * Syed Rahim Nabi, Indian international footballer, known as 'Mr. Versatile' for his ability to play at any position (except goalkeeper), declared Indian player of the year in 2012 * Santosh Nandy, Indian footballer, Olympian * Gostha Pal, footballer; member of the 1st Indian team, Mohun Bagan, that won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre-independence period * Subrata Paul, Indian national football player, first Indian goalkeeper to play professionally for a foreign club in 1st division * Mahbubur Rahman Sufil, Mahbubur Rahman, footballer and captain of Arambagh KS * Mohammed Salim (footballer), Mohammed Salim, first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club Celtic F.C.) * Sukumar Samajpati, Indian footballer, 1964 Asian Cup team member * Gautam Sarkar, ex-footballer, having represented SC East Bengal * Jewel Raja Shaikh, Indian national football player * Shamit Shome, first Bengalis, Bengali origin player in Major League Soccer * Neil Taylor (footballer), Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer of half-Bengalis, Bengali origin * Runu Guha Thakurta, Indian footballer, Olympian * Anwar Uddin, former defender for West Ham United and founder of Sporting Bengal United F.C.

Golf and snooker

* Anirban Lahiri * Hammad Miah, professional snooker player * Siddikur Rahman, Olympic and Asian Tour golfer of Bangladesh

Gymnastics

* Mabia Akhter, Commonwealth gold medalist, South Asian Games gold medalist * Dipa Karmakar, first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics * Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast of half-Bangladeshi origin * Pranati Nayak, second Indian women gymnast to qualify for the Olympics

Cycling and mountaineering

* Ramnath Biswas, soldier and writer best known for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle. * Chhanda Gayen, Chhanda Gain * Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to scale Mount Everest * Nishat Majumdar, first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest * Asim Mukhopadhyay * Wasfia Nazreen, second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest * Akke Rahman, first British Muslim/Bengali to scale Mount Everest

Squash

* Ritwik Bhattacharya * Saurav Ghosal, highest ranked Indian player

Swimming

* Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the English Channel in 1997 and the Strait of Gibraltar in 2001 * Bula Choudhury, first woman to cross the seven seas * Brojen Das, first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times * Prasanta Karmakar, para-swimmer * Sachin Nag, former swimming champion * Arati Saha, first Indian and Asian woman to swim across English Channel; first Indian female sportsperson to be awarded the Padma Shri * Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais in 1958, and for swimming across five channels in one calendar year (1956)

Table tennis

* Ankita Das, Olympian * Mouma Das, Olympian * Poulomi Ghatak * Soumyajit Ghosh, Olympian * Zobera Rahman Linu, Guinness World Record holder * Subhajit Saha

Tennis

* Samir Banerjee, Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles title * Shibu Lal, Bangladeshi ATP player * Jaidip Mukerjea, Arjuna award winner * Leander Paes, Olympic Medalist * Afrana Islam Prity, Bangladeshi ITF player

Writers

* Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940), Bengali litterateur and government officer * Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad (1861–1933), journalist and philosopher * Humayun Ahmed (born 1948), novelist * Ismail Alam (1868-1937), Urdu poet and activist * Alaol (1607–1680), poet of medieval era * Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Islamic scholar, writer, academic, essayist * Afzal Ali (poet), Afzal Ali, 16th-century poet * Arjumand Ali (1870-1914), first Bengali Muslim novelist * Asaddor Ali, writer, folklorist and winner of Bangla Academy Literary Award * Ekram Ali (born 1950), poet * Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist * Sadeq Ali, poet best known for the ''Halat-un-Nabi'' puthi * Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), novelist and essayist * Syed Murtaza Ali, writer and historian * Muhammad Arshad (writer), Muhammad Arshad, 16th-century Persian writer * Anuj Dhar, author, journalist * Banaphool (1899–1979), writer of short stories * Samit Basu, (1979), author, filmmaker * Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950), novelist * Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956), novelist and short story writer * Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971), novelist * Subimal Basak, fiction writer * Abul Bashar (born 1951), novelist and essayist * Samit Basu (born 1979), novelist * Begum Rokeya, Rokeya Begum (1880–1932), author and political activist * Izzatullah Bengali, 18th-century Persian author * Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947), poet and playwright *

(1871–1953), author, ''Gorokho Bijoy'' * Buddhadeb Bose (1908–1974), poet and essayist * Sasthi Brata, (1939–2015), fiction writer, based in UK * Novoneel Chakraborty, author, scriptwriter * Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924–2018), poet * Chandidas (1408–?), medieval Bengali poet * Aroup Chatterjee (born 1958), British Indian atheist physician, author of ''Mother Teresa: The Untold Story'' *

, novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2007 SHARP deLong Prize * Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959), author and administrator *

(born 1951), poet and author and journalist EM Forster Literary Award, Padma Shri * Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1977), linguist and educator * Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894), novelist, essayist, penned the Indian national song of integrity "Vande Mataram" * Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005), novelist * Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, (born 1936), fiction writer * Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), novelist * Shakti Chattopadhyay, (1933–1995) poet * Karimunnesa Khanam Chaudhurani (1855–1926), poet and social worker * Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award winner * Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), essayist and scholar * Pramatha Chaudhuri (1868–1946), editor of Sabuj Patra, wrote in the era of

* Abdur Rouf Choudhury, writer * Achyut Charan Choudhury, writer and historian * Malay Roy Choudhury (born 1939), Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s * Chowdhury Gulam Akbar, writer and collector of Bengali folk literature for the Bangla Academy * Kabir Chowdhury, academic and essayist * Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), poet * Indrapramit Das, Indra Das, author in English literature * Durjoy Datta (1987), author in modern English Literature * Ashapoorna Devi, Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer * Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016), novelist and short story writer * Nirupama Devi (1883–1951), fiction writer * Leema Dhar (born 1993), novelist, poet, and columnist * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) (born Chitralekha Banerjee), author and poet * Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), poet and dramatist * Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909), writer and translator of ''Ramayana and Mahabharata'' * Toru Dutt (1856–1877), wrote in English and French * Himangshu Dutta (1908–1944), composer * Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960), poet * Kaberi Gayen (born 1970), author of ''Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman'' * Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970), author, creator of the Tenida character * Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012), poet and novelist * Dhirendra Nath Ganguly, director * Amitav Ghosh (born 1956), novelist and essayist * Prabir Ghosh (born 1945), writer, essayist, poet and rationalist * Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021), poet and essayist * Joy Goswami (born 1954), poet * Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), novelist * Tanika Gupta (born 1963), playwright, appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 * Abdul Hakim (poet), Abdul Hakim (1620–1690), medieval poet * Muhammad Nurul Haque, cultural activist, social worker and writer * Syed Shamsul Haque, poet and novelist * Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912), novelist * Ashraf Hussain, poet and folklorist * Hasnat Abdul Hye, writer and novelist * Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (born 1952), science fiction writer * Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), poet * Jasimuddin (1903–1976), poet, novelist and essayist * Jīmūtavāhana (c. 12th century), Sanskrit writer of Dāyabhāga * Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan, 16th-century poet * Dilwar Khan, poet known as ''Gonomanusher Kobi'' (Poet of the mass people) * Moniruddin Khan (born 1974), writer and historian * Muhammad Mojlum Khan, non-fiction English writer best known for The Muslim 100 * Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize winner * Al Mahmud (1936–2019), poet and novelist * Heyat Mahmud (1693-1760), medieval poet and judge * Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), first Indian to write a book in the English language * Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006), poet, Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 * Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–1979), novelist and short story writer * Leela Majumdar (1908–2007), writer * R. C. Majumdar, (1888-1980), author, historian * Samaresh Majumdar (born 1944), writer, creator of the Animesh trilogy * Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1956), author * Reazuddin Ahmad Mashadi (1859–1918), philosopher * Arun Mitra (1909–2000), poet * Premendra Mitra (1904–1988), poet and short story writer * Motiur Rahman Mollik (1950–2010), poet and novelist * Nurul Momen (1908–1990), playwright * Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017), author and educator * Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936), author * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935), novelist * Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet), Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Bengali poet * Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970), poet of the Rabindranath Tagore, Tagore era * Muhammad Muqim, 18th-century poet * Ghulam Murshid, writer, essayist and cultural historian * Shahabuddin Nagari (born 1955), Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction * Naimuddin (1832-1907), Bengali writer and scholar * Jyotirindranath Nandi, (1912–1982), novelist and short story writer * Moti Nandi (1931–2010), novelist * Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), novelist *

(1938–1995), poet, writer, thinker and founder of ''

'' in

in 1961; Ugandan Indian * Krittibas Ojha (1381–1461), medieval Bengali poet * Daulat Qazi (d. 1638), medieval poet * Rahimunnessa (1763-1800), medieval poet * Shamsur Rahman (poet), Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), poet * M Harunur Rashid, teacher of English and Sufi writer * Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760), poet and song composer known for his Mangalkavya * Dilipkumar Roy, Dilipkumar Ray (1897–1980), musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist * Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913), playwright and poet *

(1921–1992), writer and film director * Annada Shankar Ray (1905–2002), novelist, essayist and poet * Arundhati Roy (born 1961), novelist and essayist * Samir Roychoudhury (1933–2016), poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher * Shah Muhammad Saghir, 15th-century poet * Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005), writer of modern Bengali literature * Subodh Sarkar (born 1958), poet * Ramprasad Sen (c. 1718 or c. 1723 – c. 1775), Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal * Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of sociology from Kolkata * Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964), novelist and legal scholar * Sankar (writer), Shankar, (1933), author in English literature * Hara Prasad Shastri (1853–1931), known as the inventor of Charyapada * Syed Mustafa Siraj (1930–2012), poet, novelist, short story writer, Sahitya Akademi awardee * Syed Sultan, wrote the first Prophetic biography in Bengali in the 16th century * Srijato, won Ananda Puroskar in 2004 * Dwijendranath Tagore (1840–1926), poet, composer, philosopher, mathematician, painter *

(1861–1941), poet, composer, novelist, essayist, story-writer, philosopher, painter, educationist * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), philosopher, educator, writer, translator, publisher, and reformer of the Bengal Renaissance period * Zainuddin (poet), Zainuddin, 15th-century poet

Cooks

* Keka Ferdousi * Alpana Habib * Nadiya Hussain * Kiran Jethwa * Siddika Kabir * Tony Karim *

References

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